Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen.

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

Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.