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

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

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

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.

Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.