For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous..

For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursu….

This is our grace: To be a note In the exact chord that animates creation..

Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories betw….

Eighty percent of language lies to us..

To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid t….

I'll tell you how to get up in the morning......watch for the dawn..

It's what we do for each other that heals..

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize..

Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that h….

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, ….

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself..

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the mean….

One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's o….

To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and ….

Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another..

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow….

When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth..

A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly a….

We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare sm….

There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved ….