As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

Our deepest need is to be seen.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.