Fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers. The planet needs people who live well in their places. The planet needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the World habitable and humane. And these needs have little to ...

We were hunters and foragers, wanderers on the savannahs and the steppes. There were no border guards then, no customs officials. The frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the Earth and the ocean and the sky. Since we first emerged a few million years ago in East Africa, we have meandered our way around ...

We are all members of the Earth community. We all have the duty to protect the rights and welfare of all species and all people. Defending biological and cultural diversity is a duty of all people. No Humans have the right to encroach on the ecological space of other species and other people, or treat them ...

What I think an awakening really involves, is a re-examination of our common sense. We have got all sorts of ideas built into us, which seem unquestioned, obvious. And our speech reflects them; its common phrases. 'Face the facts.' As if they were outside you. As if life were something they simply encountered as a foreigner. ...

The collapse of Wall Street in September 2008 and the continuing financial crisis very clearly signal the end of the paradigm that puts finance above real wealth created by nature and Humans, and puts profits above people and corporations above citizens. This paradigm can only be kept alive with limitless bailouts. It can only be kept ...

Many people in today's World have great material wealth, still they remain unhappy in the depths of their souls. They know they have an abundance of things, but they feel they are missing something. Something they can not buy and that is very important, truly momentous: a reason for being. Money is crucial for survival, just as ...

Greed is not a fundamental aspect of Human nature. Greed is a consequence of scarcity. If you and I are living in an incredible abundance, such as used to exist 200 years ago - the fish were so thick one the water that it looked like you could walk across the rivers. Under those conditions greed ...

This acceleration of time or complexity shows no sign of slowing down. In fact within the fabric of our own lives we can almost daily, hourly, by the minute feel it speeding up taking hold. It is a cliché that time is moving faster and faster; a cliché of the mass media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwAgrcY-wxw But I want to suggest that ...

My grandmother was a wonderful person. She taught me how to play the game Monopoly. She understood that the name of the game is to acquire. She would accumulate everything that she could and eventually she became the master of the board. And eventually, every time, she would take my last dollar and I would quit ...

We all must try to understand what is happening. We need to try to understand what is happening. And in my humble opinion ideology is only going to get in your way. Nobody understands what is happening. Not Buddhists, not Christians, not government scientists. No one understands what is happening. So, forget ideology. They betray. They limit. ...

You are caged by your cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it is worth. So much of what we see, we judge. So much of what we see, we do not like. Racism, sexism, poverty, war, refugee crisis, ideas of privilege. But why ...