Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

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

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.