I'm a conscious parent when I believe... a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.

If you want to enter into a state of pure connection with your child, you can achieve this by setting aside any sense of superiority.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child is here to teach me as much about myself and how I need to grow, as I am here to teach them.

There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.

Life doesn't happen to us, but happens with us.

The more you focus on connection the more free you are on one hand and the more free you can be because the child does feel authentically connected to their destiny.

The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may thrive.

[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened ways to create boundries with my child.

The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature.

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

Would you rather die, or be unwound?

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.