Richard G. Petty, MD

Life Is Movement

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“Life is movement—we breathe, we eat, we walk—we move!”         

–John Pierrakos (Greek-born American Psychiatrist and Founder of Core Energetics, 1921-2001)


“Eros, Love & Sexuality : The Forces That Unify Man & Woman” (John C. Pierrakos)

Reverence for Life

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Yesterday I made a comment about reverence. It is such an important aspect of life that I thought that you might like another today:

“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.”      

–Albert Schweitzer (Alsatian-born Theologian, Philosopher, Mission Doctor and, in 1952, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)  

Exposing A Faulty Premise

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“Our civilization rests on a faulty premise, that the world is physical and mechanical, energy and matter only. We do not pay for it in our bridges, we pay for it in the quality of our lives.”    

–Richard Grossinger (a.k.a. Richard Towers, American Writer, Anthropologist and Publisher of North Atlantic Books, 1944-)    

“Planet Medicine, Revised Edition: Origins” (Richard Grossinger)

Everything In Nature Is Attached to Everything Else

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“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

–John Muir
 (Scottish-born American Naturalist, Writer, Founder of the Sierra Club, and “The Father of the National Park System,” 1838-1914)   


“My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays (Library of America Paperback Classics)” (John Muir)

Life Transcending Logic

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“. . . on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.”        

–Robert Gordis (American Jewish Scholar, and, from 1940-1992, Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1908-1992)

“Faith for Moderns” (Robert Gordis)

The Rhythm of Life

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“The same stream of life that runs through the world 
runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.”        

–Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Painter and, in 1913, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1861-1941)   


“Gitanjali: Offerings of Song and Art” (Rabindranath Tagore)

Life Needs to Live Ever More

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“It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.”         

–Wallace D. Wattles (American Poet, Writer and Educator, 1888-1950)      

“The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, and The Science of Being Great” (Wallace Wattles)

The Stream of Life

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“The same stream of life that runs through the world 
runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.”        

–Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Painter and, in 1913, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1861-1941)   


“Gitanjali: Offerings of Song and Art” (Rabindranath Tagore)

The Oneness of the Universe

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“Whatever we see or think about is the manifestation of the Mother, of the Primordial Energy, the Primal Consciousness. Creation, preservation, and destruction, living beings and the universe, and further, meditation and the meditator, bhakti [devotion] and prema [divine love]-all these are manifestations of the glory of that Power.”       

–Sri Ramakrishna (a.k.a. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Indian Hindu Mystic and Promoter of Universal Religion, 1836-1886)     

The Play of Universal Forces

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“All life is the play of universal forces. The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces. But he can choose whether he shall respond or not to the action of a particular force. Only most people do not really choose – they indulge the play of the forces. Your illness, depressions etc. are the repeated play of such forces. It is only when you can make oneself free of them that one can be the true person and have a true life – but one can be free only by living in the Divine.”         

–Sri Aurobindo (a.k.a. Aurobindo Ghose, Indian Nationalist Leader, Mystic, Philosopher and Creator of Purna (Integral) Yoga, 1872-1950)

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