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GLOBAL
AWAKENING
We
can change the system by helping people see that there
really is a movement for a better world emerging all
around us.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
As
peacemakers, we are part of a movement that has worked
throughout history towards humanity's greatest goal
- creating a culture of peace.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
If
we look back at the course of history, we can see
how the many different movements for a better world
have evolved and have helped us to get to this moment.
The goals of each of these movements have been converging,
and a new holistic movement is emerging.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
We
are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create
the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond
all comprehension.
~ Thomas
Berry
*
“While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase
to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion
as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken
and strengthen the control of the conscience.”
-- Dorothea
Dix
“Softly
and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It
is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to
improve your financial picture, worry about investments,
and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal
principle which you are part of. You must release everything
when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in
frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax
and remember that you only get what you have for a short
period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of
being attached to anything.”
- Wayne Dyer
*
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
-- Albert
Einstein
Non-cooperation
is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of
their dignity and power. This can only be done by
enabling them to realize that they need not fear brute
force, if they would but know the soul within.”
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Every
good movement passes through five stages, indifference,
ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
truthful
movements spontaneously attract to themselves all
manner of pure and disinterested help. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the
necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a
man notices that self-observation itself brings about
certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to
understand that self-observation is an instrument of
self-change, a means of awakening.”
-- George
Gurdjieff
We are
at the very point in time when a 400-year old age is dying
and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture,
science, society, and institutions enormously greater than
the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of
the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and
ethics such as the world has never know, and a harmony with
nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence
such as the world has never dreamed.
-- Dee Ward Hock, founder of Visa.
There
is so much work yet to be done. It is so clear to me that
all we have to do is awaken to the fact that we are all
ONE, or as my friend Father Thomas Merton has so rightly
said, 'We are already ONE . . . what we have to become is
what we already are.' It seems so simple, doesn't it? Yet
so much more work to do. So much more work.'
-- Juliet Hollister, founder of the Temple of Understanding
Once
again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the
culmination of all human history. It holds the promise
of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and
heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution.
It is the idea of conscious evolution."
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
Once
again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the
culmination of all human history. It holds the promise
of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and
heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution.
It is the idea of conscious evolution."
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
We are
moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection
to conscious evolution by choice.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
The
social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass
awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals
have learned spiritually and personally.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
In
the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise,
nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer
thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are
not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven,
but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking
of the next stage of our social evolution.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
When
a culture has a story everyone understands, it gives direction
and meaning to that culture. When people no longer believe
the story, the culture disintegrates.
Earl Hubbard & Barbara
Marx Hubbard
Common
sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis
of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative,
and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel,
jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
There
has always been a longing in the human heart for a more
just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never
before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we
had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to
force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological
powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity,
poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening
for the social potential movement.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
We hold
these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative;
Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility
to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and
our world.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
By understanding
evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now
becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome
the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design
in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic
God as creator.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
Transformationally
motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity
of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
In
human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse
toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
Everything
you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole
process of creation; you are a cocreator.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
Whatever
we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to
evolve.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
The
breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation
if they drive us by new routes to meet it. . . . As
of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers,
and to an extent vaster than ever before. This is
the purpose to which we are being summoned to harness
our world-body!...Heroic responses in ideals and in
conduct are a choice of regal dignity in the presence
of a new earth and Heaven.
-- Helen
Keller
It
is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief
that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands
up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a
tiny ripple of hope; and crossing each other from
a million different centers of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current which can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
"A
dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you
dream together is reality."
-- John
Lennon
When
the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they
"lead" social development and provide direction for social
change.
-- O.W. Markley paraphrasing Fred Polak.
Self-actualizing
people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy,
and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship
and connection, as if all people were members of a single
family.
--Abraham Maslow
There
is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part
of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers
of this planet.
~ Brooke Medicine Eagle
When
we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see
the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove
of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in
a moment when they are really children, when we know
love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet,
Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with
a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the
turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the
emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves
evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.
-- Thomas
Merton
*
… we believe in the vocation of communion and participation
of our people, who day to day awaken to their political
conscience and express their desire for change and profound
democratization of society. A change based on justice,
built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously
desired fruits of peace.
-- Adolfo
Perez Esquivel
Right now over 70 percent of the world population
is convinced that something serious has to be done
about the dangers facing the planet. ...Most of humanity
wants to know how to make the change. It's one of
those tipping-point times where things can change
unbelievably fast...
-- Paul
Ray & Sherry Ruth Anderson
"We
are moved to deep humility by the knowledge that even
as we are blazing new trails into an as yet uncharted
future, we are following in the footsteps of a vast
legacy of spiritual leaders and social change makers.
The struggle for justice is as old as tyranny itself,
and the longing for a world guided by love is as old
as the human heart. Thank you for joining us in carrying
the great dream forward through the next generation."
~
Ocean
Robbins
*
"Sometimes older folks tell me: 'I was idealistic and thought
I could change the world once, too, but then I grew up.'
I'm trying to help us change our definition of growing up,
so that it ceases to mean giving up on our ideals, and comes
to mean learning how to live our dreams, every day, on the
Earth. I want to awaken the passion and creativity of youth,
combine it with the wisdom, experience and insight of elders,
and transform our world."
~ Ocean
Robbins
“A single
event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to
us. To live is to be slowly born.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Civilization can only revive when there shall come
into being in a number of individuals a new tone of
mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds,
and in opposition to it -- a tone of mind which will
gradually win influence over the collective one, and
in the end determine its character. Only an ethical
movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical
comes into existence only in individuals.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
Women
of all classes are awakening to the necessity of
self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary
useful work for which they are fitted.
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Changing
mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
-- Dennis
Weaver
“There
is something else which has the power to awaken us
to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.
They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent
to the actual density of the real, that density which
life offers us every day but which we are unable to
grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”
-- Simone
Weil
A religious
awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has
roused him in vain.
- Jessamyn West
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities
under free government is the most significant, if
not the most momentous, event of our generation. -- Woodrow
Wilson
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