Category: Quotes
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Notes on Goethe’s Aphorisms
Daniel Christian Wahl has translated Goethe’s collected aphorisms in ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’ Goethe’s Aphorisms on the theory of Nature and Science. I appreciate that Wahl has attempted to stay as close as possible to the literal meaning of Goethe’s writings in order to avoid unnecessary interpretations. Here are my own brief notes, which…
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Charles Chapin on Airborne Infection
The unwillingness to acknowledge the likelihood that aerosols are a major means of COVID-19 transmission can be traced to Charles Chapin (1856-1941), an American public health researcher. Charles Chapin writes in The Sources and Modes of Infection that: In reviewing the subject of air infection it becomes evident that our knowledge is still far too…
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Henri Bortoft on seeing life itself
Seeing is the thing! Simon Robinson shares Henri Bortoft’s 2009 Schumacher College lectures on his blog Transition Consciousness: Making the transition to a better world. The following is a transcript of Henri Bortoft’s Lecture Four, Part Three, from 12:20 to 16:05, where Bortoft talks about seeing life itself, comparing Darwin with Goethe. I have edited…
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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…