31 quotes found
“The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.”
“We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.”
“We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.”
“When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.”
“The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.”
“Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.”
“Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we have made it bleak: obscured its vibrant mystery with our ideological blinders, severed ...”
“I would like to propose that the reason our actions have been so manifestly unsuccessful in steering the world away from its present collision course is that we have not, generally speaking, been b...”
“The present convergence of crisesin money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and moreis a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.”
“From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attent...”
“The situation on Earth today is too dire for us to act from habitto reenact again and again the same kinds of solutions that brought us to our present extremity. Where does the wisdom to act in ent...”
“To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is ...”
“We sense that normal isnt coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.”
“Where, then, do we find the truth? We find it in the body, in the woods, in the water, in the soil. We find it in music, dance, and sometimes in poetry. We find it in a babys face, and in the adult...”
“Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this ...”
“One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every huma...”
“When we must pay the true price for the depletion of natures gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our hearts desire to treat the ...”
“It is the cry of the separate self, What about me? As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesnt matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its ...”
“It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story wi...”
“I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.”
“The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter ...”
“Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the consc...”
