The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To ente….

Are you going to divest in the banks and pension funds? Plenty of people are willing to invest in stock of those companies. You can argue that when a….

There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory..

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new exp….

We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it..

So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we implement more con….

Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is ….

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community..

One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever lea….

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time.

It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they….

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, an….

An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too..

We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have customers, they're goin….

Narratives that were taken for granted when I was a kid are still there, but they don't have the same depth and fervor anymore. Even the makers of th….

Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much m….

What makes you care about nature, about the planet? Is it really that you're afraid of what's going to happen if you don't take care of it? Or is it ….

I think the term "interbeing" has cropped up in a lot of places. It's in the atmosphere, because it's just so true, and the time for that truth to be….

I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when you don't have to go to sc….

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in th….

When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-partic….