We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door.

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.

The past is what it was in a flash

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

Always examine the dice.

I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur.

I never raise my voice!

A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.