The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

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

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

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

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

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