The call is not to leave this

life by falling into the canyon

of a lover’s eye or to chase the

highest summit or even to fall

through a poem to another time.

The call is to go through every

doorway and come back.

The way you might take off

your clothes to bathe in the

lake on the far side of the trail

before heading home.

We must face and honor our

journey and then take off all

we’ve been through so we can

bathe in life without all that

has happened, and return to

this day which has never been.

~Mark Nepo

when the heart finds a new opening….

inquiry for today~ how will you find measure in everything?

how forgiveness deepens

There never was a self—only our identification makes us think so.

So while purification, kindness, and attention can certainly improve our habits,

no amount of self-denial or self-torture can rid us of a self, for it was never there.

~Jack Kornfield