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

Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush our little want to be big; we come, not knowing that all the work is so much busyness of mind; all the worry, so much busyness of heart. As the sun warms anything near, being warms everything still and the great still things that outlast us make us crack like leaves of laurel releasing a fragrance that has always been.

What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.