We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.
Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.
I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet.
I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.
This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.
Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.
Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.
I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.
What time is it on the clock of the world?
I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy.
I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.
The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after
Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.
The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.