It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, it's simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results.

How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world

We no longer live life. We consume it.

When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is a fearless place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place ... To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation it's lightening up and opening up space and time for something new and wonderful to happen.

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?

Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

If you want to live for all, you will never meet anywhere