Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.
The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.