We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.

We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

Accepting that I know so little about myself is the beginning of understanding everything about life.

Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?

Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.