What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.

Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.