coming back to Life

Personally, I think that there is at least one problem…that interests all persons who think: the problem of understanding the world, ourselves, and our knowledge inasmuch, as it is part of the world. Karl Popper There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen The …

<< prev Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and setting of the sun, and cut …

<< prev What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Designing for wholeness is to begin to heal our separateness from the living world. Regenesis Institute Everybody has to be a designer. What we’re calling for is massive creativity. The fundamental issue we’re trying to …

<< previous I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe. R. Buckminster Fuller Ultimately of course it is absolutely impossible to understand …

<< previous Break the pattern which connects… and you necessarily destroy all quality. Gregory Bateson It is as impossible to know the parts without knowing the whole as to know the whole without knowing the particular parts. Blaise Pascal Thus, in scientific research, a great deal of our thinking …

<< previous The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Alan Watts Es tan triste el amor a las cosas; las cosas no saben que uno existe. | It is so sad, the love for things; things do not know that one exists. Jorge Luis Borges Without being one …

<< previous To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone. R. Buckminster Fuller The best life insurance for any species in an ecosystem is to contribute usefully to sustaining the …

<< previous If we don’t change our direction, we’re likely to end up where we’re headed. Chinese Proverb You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller The potential of the economy is …

<< prev When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. John Muir And if we prefer not to speak of it, whether for good or for ill, it is because the only thing we could say is this: poor, frail universe, born of nothing, all we are and do …