The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.