The heart is where we integrate what we know in our minds with what we know in our bones, the place where our knowledge can become more fully human.
Wholeness does not mean perfection, it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of your life.
Every day, exercise your heart by taking in life’s little pains and joys — that kind of exercise will make your heart supple, the way a runner makes a muscle supple, so that when it breaks, (and it surely will,) it will break not into a fragment grenade, but into a greater capacity for love.
And today, when the very definition of democracy is under scrutiny, here are some powerful words: For those of us who want to see democracy survive and thrive … the heart is where everything begins: that grounded place in each of us where we can overcome fear, rediscover that we are members of one another, and embrace the conflicts that threaten democracy as openings to new life for us and for our nation.