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

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.

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

Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to "save the world" until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.