Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the fruits of that essential relationship- the intimate, fertile conversation between our own heart's wisdom and the way the world has emerged before us- becomes a lifelong practice of deep and sacred listening for the next right thing we are required to do. We make the only choice that feels authentic and honest, necessary and true in that moment.

We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.

Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships.... If you give less than what you are, you dishonor the gift of your own precious life.

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.

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

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

Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit.