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.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

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

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

Spiritual life is contractual.

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