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

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

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

Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail....The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.

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

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