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

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.

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.

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

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