How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.

I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.