We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

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.

We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"