When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action - even ordinary action - so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need.

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

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.