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.

Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized.

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.

A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

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.

What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

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.