Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

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

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.