An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.

Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

The government

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

Her touch was as soft as a snowflake falling onto my skin.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.