Wide Open

May you find the courage to offer yourself fully to what has heart and meaning for you.

You grow stronger in the act of loving something. It sustains you. It generates energy. It is the soil of your faith. If you are depleted or feel as if you've failed, ultimately it is because you have not been living in service to what you love.

grow stronger in the act of loving something. It sustains you. It generates energy. It is the soil of your faith. If you are depleted or feel as if you've failed, ultimately it is because you have not been living in service to what you love.

How could the worst that has happened to you hold the possibility of bringing out the best in you?

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others. . . . Only when one is connected to one's core is one truly connected to others.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If your purpose is only about you, it has no branches. If it is only about the rest of the world, it has no roots. This is why learning through the wounds in our history, the moments when our essential needs were not met in some very basic ways, are moments that stand still in our memory and moments that hold possibility for you to unfurl your gifts. Wouldn't it be a good joke if the worst that has happened to you holds the possibility of bringing the best in you to the community?

May you open your heart to yourself in wonder and mercy.

Sacred hungers keep pushing at our edges, wanting us to let go of the old ways we have kept ourselves secure so we can expand into blossoming the life force of what we love.

The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them and learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories.

—Barry Lopez

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

—Christina Baldwin