The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

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

In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.

Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush our little want to be big; we come, not knowing that all the work is so much busyness of mind; all the worry, so much busyness of heart. As the sun warms anything near, being warms everything still and the great still things that outlast us make us crack like leaves of laurel releasing a fragrance that has always been.