We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.