Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it’s up to us to keep it burning.

Have intention, sacred will travel.

Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn’t worth much.

The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

I want John Legend to sing at my wedding.

I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.