The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.