I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.

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.

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.

Love is a power which produces love.

That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.

You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.