Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.

When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.