I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem - and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people - but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

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

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

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

Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.