Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.
The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.
The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.
Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.