Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

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

All natural processes are long processes and they last.

As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.

People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."

Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.