Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

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

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

There is no greater failure than success through wrong means

I would rather love and have my heart broken than never have had the feeling of love at all. Without love, what would you live for?

....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

I do a lot of family shows.