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

Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action - even ordinary action - so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need.

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.

Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail....The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.

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.