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.

We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.