Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.
Spiritual life is contractual.
Intuition always has our best interest at heart.
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.