Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this may be point 4.5, how about organizing a mass refusal to pay back student loans?

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.