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

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

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

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

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.

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

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.