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“To trust the slow work of the sacred is to discover that the ground has always been there. That it was holding us before we noticed it. That the peace we were searching for in the resolution of our circumstances was available, all along, beneath them — in the stillness we kept moving too fast to find.”

“The morning is not the ramp to the rest of the day. It is the day's first gift — offered fresh, without condition, before we have done anything to earn it or anything to diminish it. How we receive it shapes everything that follows.”

“This is a pale reflection of a deeper truth: that the One who created us holds us with a constancy that does not require our acknowledgment. The thread is not diminished by our forgetting. It is simply waiting for us to turn and recognize it again. To understand this, a person must first recognize the difference between connection and awareness of connection. Awareness rises and falls. It expands in moments of clarity and contracts in moments of confusion. It is shaped by fatigue, fear, distraction, longing, and countless other conditions that have nothing to do with spiritual truth. When awareness fades, the thread seems distant. When awareness returns, the thread seems near. But these impressions describe the state of the perceiver, not the state of the connection itself.”

“Wisdom lives in silence. Not the wisdom of accumulated information, which is only knowledge, but the wisdom that comes from sitting with experience long enough to understand what it was actually teaching. Hurry gives us events. Silence gives us meaning.”

“The path is always adjusted to the state of the heart. When the heart is restless, the path becomes obscured. When the heart is sincere, the path becomes illuminated. When the heart is surrendered, the path becomes effortless.”