"It is a dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty in simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fa...

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we’re not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and c...

Now I become myself./It's taken time, many years and places./I have been dissolved and shaken,/Worn other people's faces . . . May Sarton Chapter Two in Parker Palmer's Let You Life Speak: Listening For the Voice of Vocation, "Now I Become Myself...

The future has an ancient heart. — Carlo Levi Cheryl Strayed’s tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar fell into my hands at a bookstore years ago. I had just moved to a different part of the country. I knew n...