Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail....The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.

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.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

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

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.