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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
Pursue the obstacle It will set you free
The humility of wonder opens everything.
No amount of thinking can stop thinking.
Walk long enough and we all trade places.
We are broken open, or we willfully shed.
When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.
I would rather be fooled than not believe.
We need experience to release what matters.
Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
We're quietly aching for something to celebrate
…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.
Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.
Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.
To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.
Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
Let the miracles, even the ones we don't want or see, unfold.
Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.
The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.
Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?
Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.
If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.
The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.
We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.
Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.
Have the # life you want by being fully present to the life you have.
To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.
The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.
Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.
Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.