Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

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

Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.

Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues, who then see it with increasing clarity. Perhaps a myriad of unknown senses are only awaiting our consciousness.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

If we continue to believe as we have always believed, we will continue to act as we have always acted. If we continue to act as we have always acted, we will continue to get what we have always gotten.

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