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

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

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 are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.