As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.