Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

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.

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

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

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.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.