It is our task - our essential, central, crucial task - to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. It is the only way human evolution will be able to proceed.  Scott Peck

If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts... We cannot wait for society to change, or for our institutions to be renewed. We, as individuals, must assume responsibility for our own personal transformation. Georg Feuerstein

Praise bright blue skies and dark rain clouds;

Lift Happy Voices upon morning air.

Murmur sweet words softly in the evening breeze.

Be present in ALL things,

And thankful for all things. -- Maya Angelou

Life is pure adventure, 

and the sooner we realize that,

the sooner we will be able to treat life as art.

-- Maya Angelou

Fear and love are contradictory. Love is reckless in giving away, oblivious as to what it gets in return. Love wrestles with the world as with the self and ultimately gains mastery over all other feelings. My daily experience...is that every problem lends itself to solution if we are determined to make the law of truth and non-violence the law of life. For truth and non-violence are, to me, faces of the same coin. The law of love will work, just as the law of gravitation will work, whether we accept it or not...The more I work at this law the more I feel the delight in life, the delight in the scheme of this universe. It gives me a peace and a meaning of the mysteries of nature that I have no power to describe. -Mohandas K. Gandhi "My Faith in Non-Violence."