Category: Quotes
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Why we need a hug?
There’s a reason why, when my son who’s six is crying, he needs a hug. It’s not just that he needs my love. He needs a boundary around his experience. He needs to know that the pain is contained and can be housed and it won’t be limiting his whole being. He gets a hug…
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Masanobu Fukuoka in his own words
This post is a compilation of my tweets from reading of Masanobu Fukuoka’s two books The One-Straw Revolution and Sowing Seeds in the Desert. Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher. He was an outspoken advocate of the value of observing nature’s principles. IntroductionThe One-Straw Revolution is Masanobu Fukuoka’s first book which became a…
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Quotes of Stephen Buhner
This is a compilation of my tweets from Stephen Harrod Buhner’s book The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature. … the things that you need to find you will find, if only you will follow your heart. Once people have a name for something, their tendency is…
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Quotes of John Welwood
This is a compilation of my tweets from John Welwood’s book Toward a Psychology of Awakening. Hence all these quotes are the length of tweets. … how we relate to another inevitably follows from how we relate to ourselves … … our outer relationships are but an extension of our inner life … … we…
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Stuart Kauffman on emergence and life
Here is Closer To Truth‘s interview with Stuart Kauffman about “Is Emergence Fundamental?” Stuart Kauffman says among other things that (my emphasis in bold): Reason is an insufficient guide for living your life. It means we need reason, emotion, intuition, sensation, metaphor. … Life is much richer than we thought.1 The biosphere is creating its…
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Start with why
Inspiring leaders start with what they believe in first, making their worldview and motivation explicit. … The why defines the how in an action-oriented way. … how expresses the values that guide our actions and how we aim to manifest the higher purpose in action; and what refers to the results of those actions.1 Notes: 1, Daniel…
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Martin Luther King on knowing thyself
“Number one in your life’s blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.” – Martin…
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Operating as mechanism vs. organism
Elisabet Sahtouris makes the following distinction between operating as mechanism vs. organism in her book EarthDance:1 MECHANISM ORGANISM Allopoietic Autopoietic Inventor created Self-created Hierarchic structure Holarchic embeddedness Top-down command Holarchic dialog/negotiation System engineered System negotiated Repaired by engineers/experts Repairs itself Evolution by external redesign Evolution by internal redesign Exists for product or profit Exists for health and…
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Principles of healthy living systems
Elisabet Sahtouris identifies the following Organizational and Operational Principles of Healthy Living Systems in her book EarthDance (my emphasis in bold):1 Self-creation (autopoiesis) Complexity (diversity of parts) Embeddedness in larger holons and dependence on them (holarchy) Self-reflexivity (autognosis-self-knowledge) Self-regulation/maintenance (autonomics) Response ability — to internal and external stress or change Input/output of matter/energy/information from/to other…
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The territory beyond
Chapter Twenti-six, in Pathways to Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander, is about The Territory Beyond. Rosamund Stone Zander writes that The Territory Beyond is “beyond what we know and expect of ourselves as human beings, beyond the norms of achievement …, beyond our ordinary measures …, and beyond what we picture as vitality” (p.189). In The…