Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.
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...
In a world that lives like a fist
If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.
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...
When wiggling through a holethe world looks different than
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...
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 hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail…. Whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.
The Beauty of It If all I have is Now, where will I look for Joy? Without hope for the future, without hope that things will change, with no hope of finding what's been lost, and no hope of restoring...
Now, I want only to give away all that I’m blessed to know and disappear in the stream.
Live Humble as a Dog Live humble as a dog and the world will come alive in your mouth.
Just as a vine or shrub—no matter how often it is cut back—will keep growing to the light, the human heart—no matter how often it is cut—can reassert its impulse to love.
If you place two living heart cells from different people in a Petrie dish, they will in time find and maintain a third and common beat. —MOLLY VASS This biological fact holds the secret of all relati...
If you had a sad childhood, so what? You can dance with only one leg and see the snowflake falling with only one eye. —ROBERT BLY
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 key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.