Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.