When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows gently and easily, kingly giving that flows surely from who we are. As we encounter the questions—Who are we ? What do we love ?—the gift we bring will be easy, because our gift naturally emerges from who we are. The offering we bring is ourselves, just as we are. Our gift is our true nature. There can be no greater gift than this.

For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.

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.

What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?