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

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not be enough" kind of framework of scarcity. Power with is thinking abundantly as opposed to fearfully. Power with is hopefully where we're going - and where we need to go as a species in order to survive.

All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.

Mistakes are very seldom permanent, most of them can be fixed with less difficulty and drama than one imagines, and there's nothing shameful about them. There is, however, something sad and limiting about the fear of making them.

What may be on the surface looks like one thing but it's often a much larger problem.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.