It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.