...there is no certainty, except my commitment to follow the path she shows me.

"She can smell your desperation," my wise friend told me. "She can smell it in your voice. As long as she smells your desperation you are not safe for her."

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We rise by lifting others. (Robert Ingersoll)

Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle. (Charles Glassman)

Act without expectation. (Lao Tzu)

I'm of an age where this is visceral. It's not just something to read on a card. I feel it in my knees and in my heart.

The most difficult teachers have been my best teachers. The ones I resist, they break me open so that I may learn. And because I am my most difficult and challenging teacher I need an amount (always more than I imagine) of solitude. To sit. With my w...

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Today I know this: I have been called, chosen, and have often turned away from the choosing and the calling. That cost me.