To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

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

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.