Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“The basic recurring theme in Hindu mythology is the creation of the world by the self-sacrifice of God—"sacrifice" in the original sense… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.” — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation;… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
