The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.