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.

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

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.

Change can only work in two ways – for the better, or for the worst. Yet, regardless of whatever manner in which change comes into our lives, what matters is how we view it and how we react to it.

Without renewal of mind, there is no transformation.

In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.