I am simpler and more human in a setting where simplicity and the sacred human gesture are norms rather than exceptions.
~ Dennis Leder in "Presence," Vol. 1, No. 2, May, 1995
Please call me by my true names
so I can hear all my cries and
my laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.