Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

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

We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.