The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life filled not only with pain and untidiness, but also with joy, community, and creativity.

But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.