We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive, endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion.

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.

When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.