In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.