Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay i….

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journe….

All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see..

Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth..

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear..

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased..

Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us..

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will..

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is….

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what ….

There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then ….

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an ho….

Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color.... But the water, the glor….

My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have h….

…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths..

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results..

Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the….

The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world..

When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetne….

But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth o….

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waitin….