How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

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

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.

Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

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.