Just Listen an excerpt

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it.

Something stirred within him that was new, dangerous. The question of whether that was wise. ‘Sure.

Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

In many, many ways... Hufflepuff is my favorite house.

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

[Kirk] Johnson throws some heavy punches and is a knockout fighter. This is what people want to see. They want to see a fight, they want to see punches and they want to see action.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

We know the truth of the restored gospel. Are we ready to defend that truth? We need to live it; we need to share it.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

Is she kind as she is fair?