Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

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

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

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.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.

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