The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.

Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises...and these are the contractions that are propelling us into a new world, whether we like it or not, but I think we're going to like it.

What you're looking for, you won't find. But only by looking for it can it find you.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn't engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.