If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."

Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.

It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.

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

If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.