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

Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

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.

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart.