My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.

I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.

When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.