Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

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.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.