No matter how dark, the hand always knows the way to the mouth.
Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.
In a world that lives like a fist
Where love is deep much can be accomplished. —SHINICHI SUZUKI
The Chick Being Born Every crack is also an opening. When in the midst of great change, it is helpful to remember how a chick is born. From the view of the chick, it is a terrifying struggle. Confined...
Reframing what happens to us can be a healthy way to survive terrible things, or it can become a veil of denial that keeps us from moving on. Often, we simply have to trust that we will see the truth...
Now, I want only to give away all that I’m blessed to know and disappear in the stream.
Making Waves I would do anything for you. Would you be yourself? In the Hans Christian Anderson classic, The Little Mermaid, Ariel gives up her beautiful voice in exchange for legs. This is a seemingl...
Let's be in awewhich doesn't meananything but the courageto gape like fish at the surface
If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.
Being a Pilgrim 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 journey is to be a pilgrim. We all start o...
And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts?
The humanitarian Carol Hegedus reminds us, Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves.
Whether through the patterns left in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your face the moment you are questioning your worth, the quiet teachers are everywh...
We’re drawn to live in the world until the fire within meets the fire without. We’re drawn to move through all the invisible barriers to find what we love, to love what we love, and to save what we lo...
We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
We often mistake the journey of healing as one that covers over a wound. But as wounds need air and light to knit and heal, our pain and sorrow need to be brought out into the open so we can be healed...
We are the stage and all the players.
To move from controlling to trusting life is like exhausting ourselves by trying to put our arms around a river until we realize we have to enter the river and let the current take us.
The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they are being kind.