Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do more harm than good.

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

Good teaching comes from good people.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.