Have the #‎ life you want by being fully present to the life you have.

Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.