To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.

Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color.... But the water, the glorious water everywhere, has taught me that we are more than what we reflect or love. This is the work of compassion: to embrace everything clearly without imposing who we are and without losing who we are.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

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