Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against the distortion of a great yearning, 'the effort towards community.'

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.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

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.'

We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.