You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark.

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.