Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

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

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

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

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.

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

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.