My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

In the same way that we have to clean wax from our ears and dirt from our eyes, we're all asked to clean out our conclusions and judgments, which block our heart from meeting the world.

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.

We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.