In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.

Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.

Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.

We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

The human heart holds much more love than it can ever disburse in one lifetime.

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.