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.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

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

Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action - even ordinary action - so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need.

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