Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.

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

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)