What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?.

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong..

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have….

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us..

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves..

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessari….

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing..

Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you..

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of ….

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of th….

Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false di….

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born..

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but yo….

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering..

We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a di….

The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own..

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take..

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human..

As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way that you don’t belong,….

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything h….

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness..