Table of Contents
The What and the How xv
Stopping the Noise
Quieting the Thieves 2
Bring Me Close 3
Short Wisdom on a Long Planet 4
Speechless 5
Our Hands 6
Over and Over 7
Tins Is How 8
Unraveling Our Fear
Offering 10
Once Falling In 11
On Retreat 12
If I Could 13
The Only Task 14
We Try, We Try 15
Doorways 16
During the Storm 17
Beyond What Goes Wrong
Breaking the Clearness 20
Stone of Light 22
Circling the Sun 23
Everywhere I Turn 24
To Rise from Nowhere 25
Beyond the Telling 26
Eternal Two-Step 28
Stung Open for a Moment 29
Rhythm Beneath the Rhythms 30
The Gift of Deepening
Take Me Down 33
Before We Die 34
Depth Seeks Us 35
The Other Name for Heaven 37
Being in Time 38
The Radiant Flow 39
A Delicate Crossing 41
The History of My Heart 42
From the Wooden Bridge 43
The Practice of Relationship
The Labyrinth to Shared Happiness 46
The Privilege of Awe 47
In Order co Be, Hold 49
The Urge to Fly 50
Things Get Complicated 51
The Wisdom of Strangers 52
Love Is a Guess 53
Poplars by the River 54
Matepn 55
What Holds Us Up
Love Is as Love Does 59
Daybreak 61
263 Prinsengracht 62
Quivering Angels 64
In Case 65
Toward What Is 66
Rising Our of Hardship 67
A Pebble in the Stream 68
Moment of Lift 70
Navigating Trouble
How to Empty 72
Guns in the Stream 73
The One Who Goes Nowhere 75
The Life of Questions 76
Liberated by the Rivet 79
Small Messengers 80
Inside the Darkness 81
Navigating Trouble 82
Right-Sizing Our Pain
Drinking from Center 85
Cezanne in Snow 86
Staring into the River 87
Beyond Myself 89
In a Universe That Breathes 90
Etched 91
Over Many Months 92
Near the Center 94
Shedding Our Masks
What the World Asks 96
Perks 97
An Early Mirror 98
The Details Change 99
Getting Wind of It 100
Côtô 102
In the Winter Cabin 103
Giving Way 104
The Reach of Kindness
The Swift One 106
Small Light and Timeless Light 107
Of Course You Can Come 108
Putting Down Our Broom 109
Natural 110
In the Sea of Dream 111
And So It Goes 112
The Symmetry of Kindness 113
The Radiance in All Things
Flow of Light 117
Grace Notes 118
Blood of the Sun 120
We're Intimate Now 121
The Thing Falling 122
The Oldest Song in the World 123
At Times, They Dance 124
Eve of the Crow 125
Burning Off What's Unnecessary
On the Edge of God's Shimmer 129
Becoming Conscious 130
This Tenderness 131
In Our Rawness 132
Catching Fire 133
The Mansions We Dream Of 134
The Dilation of What Seems Ordinary 135
Before the Waterfall 136
Saturn's Return 137
Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Talkin' It Over at Ouzos 140
Your Presence 141
Unfiltered 142
Tilted Toward the Sky 143
How Many Waves 144
The Infinite Canvas 145
Inside Practice 146
The Golden Thread 147
Always Building and Mending
Trying to Map the River 151
Pilot Light 152
Around the World 153
Accessing Resilience 154
After the War 155
A Star after Rain 156
Next of Kin 157
Always Building and Mending 158
The Strength of Our Attention
With Things That Break 163
Swayed in All Directions 164
Between Troubles 165
The Way We Practice 166
Vellum 167
The Creative Storm 169
As the Snow Falls 170
In Full Praise 171
The Unheard Symphony 172
Letting Everything in and Through
Instructions to MY Smaller Self 174
Time Is a Rose 175
The Conflict from Assignments 176
The Great Teacher 178
The One CRY 179
However It Might Appear 180
To Be Received 181
Every Chance We Get 185
Receiver-at-the-Waterfall 186
Landing Face Up 187
How We Make Our Way
Inside Every Burden 190
Calling It In 191
Inheriting Now 192
Let Them Go Where They Will 193
The Deepest Place on Earth 194
Life after the Ocean 195
How We Make Our Way 196
For Instance 197
Becoming a Small Gesture 198
In Love with the World 199
Threading Inner and Outer: The Practice of Journaling
In Return to Promise (An Essay on Journaling) 203
Questions to Work With 210
Gratitudes 225
Notes 227
Permissions 233
About the Author 235