We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.