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

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

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

I was raised Jewish by atheistic-agnostic parents. During this journey, I had people from all walks and all faiths try to help. A Jewish priest who I was friends with wanted to lay hands on me - I didn't ask questions about how - I just said when and where and how often do you want to do it? I didn't argue.

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

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