Consciousness Is The Foundation Of All Thinking;

Idealists Are People Who Believe In The Potential Of Human Nature For Transformation. . . . The Most Essential Attribute Of Human Nature Is Its Mutability And Freedom From Instinct . . . It Is Always Within Our Power To Change Our Nature. So It Is Actually The Idealists Who Are On The Mark And The Realists Who Are Off Base.

Evil People Hate The Light Because It Reveals Themselves To Themselves. ... They Will Destroy The Light, The Goodness, The Love In Order To Avoid The Pain Of Self-awareness. ... [e]vil Is Laziness Carried To Its Ultimate, Extraordinary Extreme.

When I Am With A Group Of Human Beings Committed To Hanging In There Through Both The Agony And The Joy Of Community, I Have A Dim Sense That I Am Participating In A Phenomenon For Which There Is Only One Word...."glory."

How Strange That We Should Ordinarily Feel Compelled To Hide Our Wounds When We Are All Wounded! Community Requires The Ability To Expose Our Wounds And Weaknesses To Our Fellow Creatures. It Also Requires The Ability To Be Affected By The Wounds Of Others... But Even More Important Is The Love That Arises Among Us When We Share, Both Ways, Our Woundedness.

Love Is Too Large, Too Deep Ever To Be Truly Understood Or Measured Or Limited Within The Framework Of Words.