Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.

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.

Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

I've never had writer's block.

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.