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

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

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world.