Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

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

When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.

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.