Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that wou….

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisi….

Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independe….

Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy..

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it..

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 globa….

I think people become environmentalists through experiences of beauty and grief. There was that pond that you visited when you were a child, and ther….

It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing t….

We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitut….

The word "spiritual" normally means something that's distinct from the fleshly or the material. It's not of the world. But that version of spirituali….

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary..

Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is ….

The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while th….

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious..

Sometimes people will have a heart attack or some devastating personal loss, and after that, their political views change completely, and their behav….

Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get use….

I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose t….

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….

Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the min….

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world..

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air..