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

My deepest wish for you is that the deepest parts of you can one day put down the battle and let yourself truly be held in a cradle of loving sunlight. - from "Cradle of Sunlight," The School of Soft-Attention

Heart-Mind, left to its natural state, is vast as a panorama of Nature. - from The School of Soft-Attention: Poems

There is a way of entering the forest when the breeze of the trees becomes your guide; there is a way of approaching the self without a heavy-hand, when the heart-mind slowly becomes unburdened by the past, where the body listening with the whole of itself finally becomes attuned to all the subtle happenings in the realm not yet stained by the faithless world of man. -- from "Forest Bathing," 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