We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.

In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.