Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

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

We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it.

When you understand that everything happening in the world mirrors something that's happening in yourself, then you can work on the self by working on the external manifestation of that thing in the world. And in fact, there may be no other way. You can sit in meditation for a long time and be blind to huge wounds in yourself, and it's only when you're engaging with the world that the wounds become visible, externalized.

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independent, then you really don't depend on your neighbors for anything. You can just pay someone to do it.

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