…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior."

Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.