We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

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

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

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

…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

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 smallest flowers are watered.

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

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

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 journeying is to be a pilgrim.

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

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

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

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.