It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

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.

Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.

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

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

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