Just Listen an excerpt

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

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

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.