We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.