What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.

The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."