Occupation: Author Birth: May 2, 1929
Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us..
You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough..
Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart..
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….
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….
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 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….
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….
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….
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 ….
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe..
The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further..
Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world..
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….
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale ….
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….
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 future is not out there in front of us, but inside us..
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….
There's a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful ….