As we awaken individually, we will act more powerfully collectively.

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

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

Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.