The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us..

It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can kno….

To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, org….

The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, ….

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe..

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater tha….

Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of co….

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart..

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world..

This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. S….

We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer, more responsi….

No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale ….

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for t….

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the ….

Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work t….

We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness wi….

The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into wh….

When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it be….

The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or opt….

Out of this darkness a new world can arise, not to be constructed by our minds so much as to emerge from our dreams. Even though we cannot see clearl….

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further..