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.

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

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 are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

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