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

We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

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

Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.