By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

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

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.