When we don’t practice gratitude,the world around us seems alien and unwelcoming,and we shut down in self-protection.Gratitude opens us to reality.

The real youis much too big to be your own.

Each day, each momentis a step into the unknown.How can we feel anythingbut amazement?

When in doubt, favor compassionover certainty or tradition.

Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the breath. Poetry induces trance. Its words are chant. Its rhythms drumbeats. Its images become the icons of the inner eye. Poetry is more than a description of the sacred experience; it carries the experience itself.

Suffering is always an invitationto awarenessand compassionand action.

Follow the trace of timeuntil the startcollapses with the endin the space of the heart.

To really meet the mystery,we must be uncertain.

Love has no opposite.Hate, fear, are not love’s opposites;they are its denial.

Through youthe world learnsto recognize itself— as heaven.