There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.