1 My Gift to You

Gifts are meant to delight and surprise us. That’s why people who care about us offer them to us. This book is my gift to you, filled with perspectives and practices chosen for their power to restore and awaken the human spirit, to enrich our capacity to work well together, to create more goodness and possibility. At this time when lives and possibilities are destroyed by casual destructive decisions, I aspire for us to be sane leaders devoted to restoring and awakening the finest qualities of being human—our generosity, creativity, and kindness. We will not change the world, but we can create Islands of Sanity where our human spirits come alive and we contribute in ways that make more possible.

What becomes possible when we ...

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