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

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

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.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.