If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.