Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.

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

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.