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.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

Let the miracles, even the ones we don't want or see, unfold.

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.