Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.