Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.

We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

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

Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

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.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.