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

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not.

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