We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.