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

We're quietly aching for something to celebrate

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

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

Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."

Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?