Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.

We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.

Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.

People have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness.

Many of us would like the world to change, but we don't want to endure the trouble of helping make it happen.

The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.

Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!

You are my light when i'm in the dark

I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.