We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

We're quietly aching for something to celebrate

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.

Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.