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.

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

The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

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

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.