True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.

It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is.

Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience.

It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

The more history I read, the more everything seems to point to the same thing.