We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.

It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.

I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.