Top Highlights

• We see that when the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose. We see that when reverence is lacking from life’s activities, the result is cruelty, violence, and loneliness. The physical arena is a magnificent learning environment. It is a school within which, through experimentation, we come to unders...
• Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage one cannot practice any virtue consistently. We can be kind, generous, just, courteous, and merciful sporadically, but to display those virtues, consistently, calls for an enormous display of courage.
• The power to control the environment, and those within it, is power over what can be felt, smelled, tasted, heard, or seen.
• What we fear is an increase in our vulnerability.
• Competition for external power lies at the heart of all violence.