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

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.

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

We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

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

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

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