When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and they say, "I made it, I'm rich. But what the hell is my life for?"

What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is our most essential food, our most essential wealth. If we consciously receive all this abundance, the universe will pour into us what is called life in Judaism, spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power in Taoism.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and insistent as any other problem of human existence. And it haunts the spiritual search as well.

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.