The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.

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

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?

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.

A great life starts and steadies with a great mind that is open to new ideas, fierce in defense of truth, and always eager to learn.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The best of men are men at best

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.

There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

I don't think that God raised up Internet bloggers to call out wolves - who have an opinion and a website.

If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.