LEADERS

Why?

Walking

Zen things

Nectar-like

"Profound peace, natural simplicity, uncompounded luminosity. I have found a nectar-like dharma." 

- The Buddha's words upon his enlightenment at the age of 35 in Bodhgaya

Let us begin

"Physics has provided the basis for the design of the fission and fusion bombs, biology -- germ warfare, chemistry -- nerve gas.  And all of them have helped bring us to the brink of doom.  But they still do not provide keys to ultimate power. If we do destroy ourselves, it will be the minds of human beings, the unhealthy emotions of individuals, the fear, the hate, the jealousy and the greed of individuals that will trigger these horrors. . . .You can use Inner Science to educate each individual to understand himself or herself, to control his or her negative emotions and distorted notions, and to cultivate his or her highest potentials of love and wisdom.  And you can keep improving your Outer Sciences to better understand, control and beautify the environment for the greater benefit of all beings. There is an enormous amount of work to be done.  Let us begin it here and now." ~ The Dalai Lama at Harvard

Follow the world of humans

Carlos Casteneda has Don Juan state “there is a world of happiness where there is no difference between things, because there is no one there to ask about the difference.  But that is not the world of men.  Some men have the vanity to believe that they live in two worlds, but that is only their vanity.  There is but one world for us.  We are human, and must follow the world of humans contentedly.”

Our Wounds …

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Vonnegut

LEST WE FORGET

Kent State, May 4, 1970

Mary Oliver

Yoruba Mask

Question

Soul

I Seek My Teacher

People who care

Give them the guns

Pretense into Art Form

Growing Old

Firgiveness

Peace is not weak

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb." Mattieu Riccard

Mind and Heart

"In all the Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart is the same word.  I you see the mind and heart are the same, then compassion is built right into it.  Mindful attention is itself affectionate.  It's open, spacious, curious, and in the seeing of the interconnectedness, then compassion arises naturally as there is no separation.  Wisdom is the knowing of no separation, and compassion is the feeling of no separation."  - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Ethical Pragmatic

"The ethical and pragmatic are really the same.  Ethical behavior is not thought to be some virtuous thing you do even though it or is against your interest; it is pragmatic, because it molds you evolutionarily as a being.   You damage your evolution when you act unethically and you advance your evolution when you act ethically." Robert Thurman 

Core Capacity

"... the core capacity needed to access the field of the future is presence. We first thought of presence as being fully conscious and aware in the present moment. Then we began to appreciate presence as deep listening, of being open beyond one's preconceptions and historical ways of making sense. We came to see the importance of letting go of old identities and the need to control and... making choices to serve the evolution of life...Virtually all indigenous or native cultures have regarded nature or the universe or Mother Earth as the ultimate teacher. At few points in history has the need to rediscover this teacher been greater."

Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski & Betty Sue Flowers

Insane together

"It is time to be insane together! It is time to violate consensus reality... We are all holding each other in an emerging story that will restore and regenerate our hurting world."

--Charles Eisenstein 

Courage is contagious.

"Courage is contagious. If you take a courageous step as an individual, you will literally change the world because you will affect all sorts of people in your immediate vicinity, 

who will then affect others and then affect others. 

You should never doubt your ability to change the world."  

- Glenn Greenwald 

Self Importance

Loving Humility

"At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins, uncertain whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide, 'I will combat it with human love.' If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a force; it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing like it." -- Dostoyevsky

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God From The Inside

"The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great is the inward is small or of little worth...All works are surely dead if anything from the outside compels you to work.  Even if it were God himself compelling you to work from the outside, your works would be dead.  If your works are to live, then God must move you from the inside, from the innermost region of the soul--then they will really live.  There is your life and there alone you live and your works live."

- Meister Eckhart

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25 Ways

Today's World

Two small words

Life is a great mystery filled with endless clues that excite us, guide us, and in spite of ourselves illuminate us.  Each day as awe awaken, if we can remember that this is a day like no other day and should be treasured and savored, then we become as a child filled with awe and wonder.  Unfortunately most adults want to relive yesterday, and are then surprised that they are bored with life.  When we start our day with thoughts of gratitude we then build a day with unlimited possibilities.  Two small words can move mountains of depression, suppression, and repression…. Thank you.   Acknowledging the gift and the giver brings forth the very best within us and awakens a divine magnificence that paints each day with splendor and beauty.  (Rev. Margie Ann-Taylor Black)

Archetypes

Having been brought up in a mythical culture...archetypes are primordial encapsulated stories or mythologies and they are in the form of a seed in consciousness. When you plant that seed in consciousness, that archetypal seed, that mythical journey, then that seed starts to sprout. And as it sprouts, the patterning forces creates the situations, circumstances, events, and relationships for the unfolding of the story.  I say select two or three heroes or heroines in mythology, or religion, or history and then ask these mythical beings to incarnate through you. And then don't be surprised when your see situations, circumstances, coincidences, synchronicity, and relationships finally show up that actually are part of the story you have been seeking to express.- Deepak Chopra

Eco-mindset

"We live in a moment of disruption, death, and rebirth.  What's dying is an old civilization and mindset of 'me.'   What is being born is less clear but in no way less significant... It's a future that requires us to tap into a deeper level of our humanity, of who we really are, and who we want o be as a society.   It's a shift that requires us to expand our thinking from the head to the heart.  It is a shift from an ego-system awareness that cares about the well-being of me to an eco-system awareness that cares about the well-being of all, including myself." - Otto Scharmer, MIT