"I know some people cringe when they here the word spiritual. But we're here together in the Network because we're trying to change our lives together, and to change the world into a better place. And we can do that only by raising our own consciousness and the consciousness of everyone else to a higher level, where we see that we are all interconnected, we all need each other, we all need the natural world and all living creatures in it, and that the prosperity for each of us depends on the prosperity of all. That is what spirituality is all about. So at heart, we are an economic movement, a political movement, an ecological movement, and above all a spiritual movement, a movement to bring ourselves and all the people to a higher consciousness."