We exist in the spheres of our upbringing and our family traditions. Burst your spheres and create a new world of awareness.

You can't tell a tree from a distant forest. Enter the forest and touch the tree.

The rose is only visible from outside the garden. Bring it close and drink deep of its fragrance.

The grain of sand are like the wind in a desert storm. It must be held in your finger tips.

What does a snow flake in a blizzard look like? Look quickly before it melts in the window pane. How lovely its evanescent tracery!

It is easier to misunderstand and hate a whole than to understand the single manifestation of that whole.

Look close, touch, immerse, hold to understand; so you can see our unity and be alive.

Know the girl in the woman and the boy in the man that you may understand each.

Enjoy the spiritual in the religious that you may know the difference and find a greater truth.

Appreciate each race, gender and orientation that you may understand humanity.

Yellow, black, red, brown; the colors of crayons but manifesting such variety.

See their beauty in the skin of our brothers and sisters.

Each is a unique manifestation of genetic, existential singleness for there has not been or will ever be one like you or me.

Understand the gay man caricatured by the comic.

Care for the lesbian mothers shepherding their children at your schools.

They are closer and more in your life than you suspect.

You can find them in your family; if you look.

Love a lesbian as a sister and a gay man as a brother.

Protect and cherish all of Nature's creation as if we were you.

We are you.