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

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.

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.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.

When you deliver information the way the other person wants to receive it, you increase your bottom line.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.