Love is not a matter of getting connected. It is a matter of seeing that we already ARE connected within an intricate web of relationships that extends throughout all life. It is a realization of 'no boundary' -- that we are all made of the same stuff, riding through time on the same spaceship, faced with the same problems in the world, the same hopes and fears. It is a connection at the core, that makes irrelevant skin color, age, sex, looks or money.

Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.

To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life

Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine.

As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.

Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.