Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.