Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

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.

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.

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.

The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.