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.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.

The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are doing.

Good teaching comes from good people.

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.

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