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

It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

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

Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.