We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.

Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected.

The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It's only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur.