What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.

What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.

Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay.

Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.

If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.