The only sure thing that comes out of passing judgment on people’s efforts to help is that they won’t help us again.

The most important thing is being attuned to where we are in the cycle and acting accordingly.

The first flaw is perspective. We have a hard time seeing any system that we are in.

They own the problem, you own the solution.

Contempt as a rule will cease with the beginning of mourning for the irreversible that cannot be changed, for contempt, too, has in its own way served to deny the reality of the past.

Babies may not yet know words, but we can learn to understand them by observing them. If we practise this skill of observation, it will help us to understand and relate better to our children, whatever age they are.

Certain films, because of surprising box office success or memorable content, become permanent monuments on the cultural landscape. Titanic, like Star Wars, Easy Rider, Close Encounters, and Independence Day, has become such a monument.

It’s only by facing our finitude that we can step into a truly authentic relationship with life.

New Guinea thus joins the Fertile Crescent, China, and a few other regions as one of the world’s centers of independent origins of plant domestication.

If something is built to show, it’s built to grow.