If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.

We lose our time because we lose our attention

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient...

Romantic love is an addiction.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

I never think of physical fighting. It's always spiritual. Fighting is spiritual.

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Being in the moment is everything. So being in the moment for me is just letting the narrative play out, listening to the designers and giving them helpful feedback about what they're doing.

The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.