Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.

Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

Tell me, can you see beauty? Can you let it renew your commitment to life, every day? I don't want to wait for death to be near to receive the beauty in my life. I want to be awed every day by the truth-pretty or painful-and let it open me to the beauty that surrounds me and draws me deeper and deeper into my own life.

What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold?

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?