How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.