Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

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

The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.