People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.