People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.