I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.

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.

Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

Every person is bound to make the first impression with the help of words

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

I have seen many organizations where there is this sense of purpose in the headquarters but it never gets cascaded down to everybody within the organization.

Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

I know you are, but you gotta push

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.