Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.

Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.

There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.

Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

The humility of wonder opens everything.