This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.