I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in your examination of life and death; Willingness to continually grow; and openness to the possibility that the ordinary is extraordinary, and that your joys and your sorrows have meaning and mystery

I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.

Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right; rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.