The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

Our world-view determines the manner in which we engage the world.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity

Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells!

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

When I eat better, I perform better.

When I start something I bring my A-game - I assume I'm going to win.

I got a new dog. He's a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he's not sure what I threw him.