When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

If we're trying to get the perfect house, the perfect relationship or the perfect job, it's likely there's some kind of fear driving us beyond the natural wish to improve. It's really the refusal to acknowledge that life - including ourselves - is simply not perfect.

When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant plan that kind of falling. When you abandon yourself utterly to life, the river will flow, and the log jam will free. Impossible is another word for grace. Who wouldve thought it, life takes another turn, and you are gathered up into a whole different way of seeing and being.

People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

Wisdom and knowledge are two different things.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.