Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear what I’m about to tell you. I hope you’ll hear it all the way down to your toes. When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.

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

You gotta imagine what's never been.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside