How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.