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

I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when you don't have to go to school. School should be something that you love. Life should be something that you love.

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

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.

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.