The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.

We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

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.

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.

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

The humility of wonder opens everything.