Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.