I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.

Women are rising slowly but steadily into full partnership with men all over the world. This is going to change everything. When the rich mind- style of women is available - with an emphasis on process, rather than on end-product, and on making things cohere, grow and interlink - - then it changes the way we educate, it changes the way we govern, it changes the way we worship.

We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a statecraft system of 200 years ago, and so on. None of this is working very well for the requirements of a time as complex and variegated as our own. So we stand shuttering at the threshold, with no clear map.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

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

The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

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