It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

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