When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.

Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else.

we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.