The System Is Not Working.

Compassion Is Not Pity ... Compassion Never Considers An Object As Weak Or Inferior. Compassion, One Might Say, Works From A Strength Born Of Awareness Of Shared Weakness, And Not From Someone Else's Weakness. And From The Awareness Of The Mutuality Of Us All. Thus To Put Down Another As In Pity Is To Put Down Oneself.

Political Movements For Justice Are Part Of The Fuller Development Of The Cosmos, And Nature Is The Matrix In Which Humans Come To Their Self-awareness Of Their Power To Transform. Liberation Movements Are A Fuller Development Of The Cosmos's Sense Of Harmony, Balance, Justice, And Celebration. This Is Why True Spiritual Liberation Demands Rituals Of Cosmic Celebrating And Healing, Which Will In Turn Culminate In Personal Transformation And Liberation.

A Job Is Something We Do To Get A Paycheck And Pay Our Bills. Jobs Are Legitimate, At Times, But Work Is Why We Are Here In The Universe. Work And Calling Often Go Together.

Cars Are Part Of Our Genetic Makeup. It's Unavoidable.

To Recover A Spiritual Tradition In Which Creation, And The Study Of Creation, Matters Would Be To Inaugurate New Possibilities Between Spirituality And Science That Would Shape The Paradigms For Culture, Its Institution, And Its People.