To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.

I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

There is a current mythology in our culture that anytime we meet someone and have that "enchanted evening" experience, that experience of looking into the eyes of the other and falling hopelessly in love - that this is nothing more than a delusion; a mutual projection, a fantasy that will only last until reality sets in.