We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.