By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

Our past is not our potential.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.