We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.