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

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

Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.

An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.

Enlightenment is a group activity.

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.

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.