“Organisms shape themselves in response to their neighbors and their environments. All respond to one another, co-evolving and co-creating the complex systems of organization that we see in nature. Life is systems-seeking. It seeks organization. Organization is a naturally occurring phenomenon. Self-organization is the powerful force by which Gaia created herself through relationships, creating all the living systems we see. She knows how to organize from the inside out, from partnering with neighbors rather than from imposition and control.”
–Margaret J. Wheatley (American Writer and Expert in Organization Behavior and Systems Thinking, 1944-)
{“Reclaiming Gaia, Reclaiming Life”}
“He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.”
–Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Artist and Scientist, 1452-1519)
“Pride implies duality, and all duality must be rooted out forever. Therefore the disciple is reminded that it is not as a personal refuge from the sorrows and pains of life that he must enter the fortress. Brahman is One and the same in all.”
–Sri Krishna Prem (a.k.a. Ronald Henry Nixon, a.k.a. Gopal Da, English-born Hindu Teacher, 1898-1965)
“On the day when science begins to investigate non-physical phenomena, it will make greater progress in a decade than in all the centuries it has existed.”
–Nikola Tesla (Serbian-born American Inventor, 1856-1943)
“There is no limit to your light, except the dark shadows of the ego cast upon the sky which we call self. Shake you soul! Awaken it from slumber! The time has come to awaken to your Divine being.”
–Pir Vilayat Khan (Sufi Teacher and Head of the International Order of Sufis, 1916-2004)
“Of course you have work to do in this world. Your first job is to awaken your own divine nature. You can do that by putting yourself into inspirational circumstances and looking within and waiting in receptive silence for answers from within.”
–“Peace Pilgrim” (a.k.a. Mildred Norman, American Peace Activist, 1908-1981)
“I shall now state clearly the profound secret. Understand that when the ego dies and the real Self is realized as the One Reality, then there remains only that real Self, which is pure consciousness.”
–Ramana Maharshi (Indian Hindu Mystic and Spiritual Teacher, 1879-1950)
“A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”
–Georges Clemenceau (French Politician, and, from 1906-1909 and 1917-1920, Prime Minister of France, 1841-1929)
“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep. They’re born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up.
They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence. You know all mystics… are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. ‘Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.”
–Anthony de Mello (Indian-born Jesuit Priest, Psychotherapist and Writer and Former Director of the Sadhana Institute of Pastoral Counseling in Poona, India, 1931-1987)
“Approaching God: How to Pray” (Steve Brown)
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.”
–Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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