Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.

In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.

The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.