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

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Cancer changes your whole life.

I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.

We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself