Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...

I care about what the people I care about think about me. It's a short list, but I really care about what those people think.

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

Science will win because it works.

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

When you play good, everything is good, but when you dont play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.