The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.

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?

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

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