How do we change the world? Change the story.

It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.

The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left to convert into money.

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

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

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

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.