After about ten years of trial and error, I found I could influence others by being myself --and without burning out in the process. This became a way of being. It was not a way of reacting to, moving, changing, or affecting the people out of my immediate environment. It all had to do with my relationships in the moment--joining the people in my life in an experience of time that is vital and alive and not dependent on things over there or what happened or what will come.

The biggest gift of my life has been discovering that I can be a useful channel through which the healing process can express itself – despite all the evidence that it’s a terminal world. Each of us will die, and for all we truly know, we’ll take our experiencing of the world with us.

The key to living within the riddle has been to sharpen my skills by facing and working through my own pain and knowing my own universe intimately. But it can’t stop there. To make it worthwhile, I must share the experience with others. My realization is that bringing this to people is about as high a form of activism as I can find in my life, because in order to do so, I have to invest everything.