Stop spinning on your busy wheel of pain long enough to hear this: You are not outside the fold of your original preciousness. Even the dawn-bird is heralding this truth each morning, singing to you a map-song with coordinates leading to your renewal. - from "Invisible Belonging," The School of Soft-Attention

If you're tired of spinning: anchor. If you're tired of being pulled into dark waters of suffering: stop biting honey-covered hooks. - from "The Old Code of Good Travelers," The School of Soft-Attention

If you're tired of shouldering heavy weight: off-load what isn't vital and begin what it is. - from "The Old Code of Good Travelers," The School of Soft-Attention

Place the Heart-Mind's Trustworthy Light onto the Old Code of Good Travelers: The antidote to depression is devotion. - from "The Old Code of Good Travelers," The School of Soft-Attention

When the soul becomes unburdened it's like a new saddle on a fresh horse. Suddenly the trail feels right again, and the strong horizon line in front of you as you turn becomes its own form of soothing medicine. - from "The Bouquet of the Last Direction," The School of Soft-Attention

Make the sunrise a temple. - from "The Old Code of Good Travelers," The School of Soft-Attention

There is a Great Story that binds us all together and it's not the one any of us grew up with. - from "Cosmology," The School of Soft-Attention

The magic of your larger blooming life has been trying to reach you; pouring through the cracks, seeping up through the ground around you. It has no aim, save one: to save you; to bring back the moist oasis of midnight wine and pillow talk to that dry desert you've become. - from "May These Words Drive You Up A Wall," The School of Soft-Attention

Now walk, especially among the trees if you can. Matsuo Bashō and Kierkegaard frequently relied upon this prescription. - from "Prescriptions," The School of Soft-Attention