My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?