No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.