We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.

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

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.