Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions ... The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community.

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.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

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

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

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

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