“We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.”

– Joan Halifax

“Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.”

– Wendell Berry

“Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it’s become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.”

– Stewart Brand

“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 than their fear.”

– Joanna R. Macy

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Cambell

“‘Star Trek’ seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge”

– John Cho

“If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight.

– William Bateson

“As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.”

– Mary Catherine Bateson

“Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.”

– Margaret Mead

“Living simply makes loving simple.”

– bell hooks

“Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what’s possible.”

– Margaret Wheatley

“The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

– Confucius

“Poetry is not resting on the given, but a questing towards what might otherwise be.”

— Adrienne Rich

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it’s extremely powerful.”

– Stewart Brand

“Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.”

– Joseph Campbell