The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

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

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love.

Your attitude in your storm determines how long you are in it

It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.

Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.