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

The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.

Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life's miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars.

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

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

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.