There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.

Originality is the death of mediocrity.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.