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

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.

Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay in relationship, the way we refresh who we are and what we're doing here.