"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

Without godliness, we are unable to see God.

I'm sorry about yesterday, " she said.He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

...one dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be around people. You and I require sleep. They require people.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.