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.

Because we do not rest, we lose our way.

Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.

Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

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

Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We feel we must change our job, our living situation, our relationship, our address, our diet, or our clothes before we can truly begin a spiritual practice. And yet it is not the act but the awareness, the vitality, and the kindness we bring to our work that allows it to become sacred.

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