Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

I would rather be fooled than not believe.

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

Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.

In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried by the largest sea of all: the sea of grace that flows steadily beneath the turmoil of events. And just as fish can't see the ocean they live in, we can't quite see the spirit that sustains us.

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