Inspiration
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
— Rumi
“Fundamentally, you see, you can’t get away from it. It’s like a situation in which we are all floating in a tremendous river, and the river carries you along, anyhow.
“Now, some of the people in the river are swimming against it, but they’re still being carried along. Others have learned that the art of the thing is to swim with it. And they are carried along, too – but they know it, you see? They know they are carried along, whereas the people who are swimming against it think they’re going in the opposite direction. But they’re not really.”
— Alan Watts
“As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.”
— Ram Dass
“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe – to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it – is a wonder beyond words.”
— Joanna Macy
“Evidently it is not science that has diminished man or divorced him from divinity. On the contrary … we are to recognize in this whole universe a reflection magnified of our own most inward nature, so that we are indeed its ears, its eyes, its thinking, and its speech – or, in theological terms, God’s ears, God’s eyes, God’s thinking, and God’s Word; and, by the same token, participants here and now in an act of creation that is continuous in the whole infinitude of that space of our mind through which the planets fly, and our fellows of earth now among them.”
— Joseph Campbell
“May God us keep from single vision and Newton's sleep.”
— William Blake
“So when somebody speaks with ‘authority,’ that means speaks as the author. That’s all it means. It’s a statement of which you are the author and therefore for which you assume responsibility. That is to speak with authority.
“And to be original, is likewise not to be freaky—but to speak from the origin.”
— Alan Watts
“In a fractal conception, I am a cell-sized unit of the human organism, and I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do.”
— Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“Human consciousness is, at the same time as being a form of awareness and sensitivity and understanding, it’s also a form of ignorance.”
— Alan Watts
“The tendency to synchronize is one of the most pervasive drives in the universe, extending from atoms to animals, from people to planets.”
— Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
“You see, because we are staring, as it were, at certain features of the landscape, we don’t see the background.”
— Alan Watts