But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.