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.

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

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.

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.