We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towards ourselves.

It is from that region of silence, that wordless knowing comes.

What's not often in the present moment is the thinking mind.

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

We can acquire as much knowledge as we would like with a few taps on our keyboard. That's extremely valuable, but wisdom comes again from some different dimension.