Lecturer Quotes

Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.

Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.

We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, "What should I do?," we can learn to reflect, "How should I be?

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Everyone has a unique talent, but few explore it.

When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative;

mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness.

Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing ... Only when our feet learn once again how to walk in a sacred manner, and our hearts hear the real music of creation, can we bring the world back into balance.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed.

Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet.

Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change

Never let success get to your head

Almost All Problem Areas Of Your Life Are Caused By Faulty Belief Systems.

You Are The Cause Of Your Problems And You Are The Solution To Your Problems.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.

The fact that we have to fight for something so essential to life as the integrity of seeds, speaks to the real drama of this present time: that we have to fight to preserve what is most fundamental and sacred to life.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the root of our being where the sacred is born. Then, standing in both the inner and outer worlds, we will find our self to be part of the momentous synchronicity of life giving birth to itself.

You are only one decision away from a totally different life.

Finding that core of truth within yourself.

.. That truth that knows and trusts that All Is Well, and that chooses Love... Is the greatest spiritual attainment you can ever make.

This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.

Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.

What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

Every man needs woman when his life is mess, because like in game of chess; queen protects king.

There are just a number of documents within the company and the industry that clearly indicate that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than mainstream smoke -- and the documents date back into the 70s.

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.”

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

Only a hungry man can understand the pain of hunger.

I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.

S. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to our stereotype of an established terror organization attacking a major iconic landmark.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed, the opportunity that is offered. How we make use of this opportunity depends upon the degree of our participation, how much we are prepared to give ourselves to the work that needs to be done, to the freedom that needs to be lived.

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

Life is a one-time offer, use it well.

Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.

Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues that I should be surprised if he were right about everything, but it makes for a most stimulating read. The book is in a different league from Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, and deserves much greater success.

It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature.

We have in us a divine spark that you can see.

It's a Light that shines in the human being. It's our direct access to truth, our direct access to God. The purpose of all the spiritual practices that exist are to awaken that sparkto give it life, to give it energy, so that it can transform you. One of the energies that comes from that spark is Love.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

Life never gets easier, you become stronger.

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.

We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part... it's all part of the great dance of life. You don't have to sit back and wait for it. The most powerful gateway to the universe you have is the present. All the work of so many lifetimes is ultimately completed in a single instant - and you can choose whenever that will be.

If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

Do something good every day that your future self will thank you for.

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade.

Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.