We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."