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- We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.
- The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that…
- Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the…
- The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.
- The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the…
- If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without…
- It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories.…
- Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities…
- We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is…
- The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all…
- Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy…
- Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living…
- The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that…
- We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken…
- All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing…
- The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.
- There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all…
- We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there…
- The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and…
- All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman