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

Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.

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

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

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

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

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