In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

Paul Ryan has become a doormat...And he's become this little person who is following Romney around.