Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

The thought that your time and your life will melt away should create a sense of urgency to do something of worth with it before it all melts away.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

This is Winter, " said Scarlet. "Princess Winter."Thorne guffawed and pushed a hand into his hair. "Are we running a boardinghouse for misplaced royalty around here, or what?

Most beautiful places where I found myself satisfied were libraries

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.