We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

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.

Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.