We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

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

We need experience to release what matters.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

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