When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.

Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.