Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

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