If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Societal transformation isn't going to happen in one month, one year, or even one lifetime. But we see it happen person by person in front of us, and we don't have to worry about the future if we're taking care of the present. In some sense, that's the best insurance policy we can have.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required.... It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.