Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay in relationship, the way we refresh who we are and what we're doing here.

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

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

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.

The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.