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I feed on conferences.
Academicians get nowhere.
Our past is not our potential.
Love is a context, not a behavior.
We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.
The other side of every fear is a freedom.
I didn't intend to go into the seminar business.
Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.
We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.
A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.
Transformation is a journey without a final destination.
The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.
Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.
Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.
You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity.
The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.
The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.
If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.
The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.
A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.
People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.
The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.
The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.