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.

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

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

There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

I would rather be fooled than not believe.