"Boredom is so endemic to our culture, particularly among youth, that we imagine it to be a near-universal default sta…"

"The unstoppable compulsion to act, in bigger and wiser ways than you knew possible, has already been set in motion. I…"

"Not blaming ourselves for mistakes is the flip side of not taking credit for our acts of courage or creativity or lea…"

"The war against the self is the internalization of the war against nature. We have been taught that we need an act of…"

"Constrained by habits and acculturalization, we have less choice than we imagine. Many apparently momentous decisions…"

"Every culture has a Story of the People to give meaning to the world. Part conscious and part unconscious, it consist…"

"We live within a cultural mythology that tells us we are separate beings in competitive relation for power, even for …"

"Miracles are not the intercession of an external, divine agency in violoation of the laws of nature. A miracles is so…"

"How much freer and happier we would feel, and how much more powerful we would be, if only we stopped struggling again…"

"No matter how complete the despair, no matter how bitter the cynicism, a possibility beckons of a world more beautifu…"