Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.