Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.

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

Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.