In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.