Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.

The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.

As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.

Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?

We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.