If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.