Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.

Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.