Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

Agitation gives birth to creation.

Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.

I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.

Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.

The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.