The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.