We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

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.

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

We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

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

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.