Alan Watts – The Dream Of Life
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Watts
Philosophy
Ram Dass – Dissolving the Fear, Finding Your Own Beauty
“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”
– Ram Dass
Related – Experiencing a connection to the universe – Opening the Heart – Experience
Les Brown – I AM going to make it
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
– Les Brown
Related – Live your dreams – Why People Fail
Brian Swimme – The New Story
“I have a sense that something amazing is at work … I think our planet is actually moving into a time of profound harmony and fecundity and peace but whether that’s going to take 600 years or 6 days I don’t know. I mean, I think that as humans begin to take seriously… the planetary dimension of conscious self-awareness, then we will become humanized versions of natural selection – so that we will begin to make decision with the large scale dynamic of the planet in mind. So I see that we’re actually entering into a transformation of the human species out of the modern period into this new era… It may take centuries… but like the past and it’s catastrophes I think that’s… what’s taking place in the midst of so many hardships.”
– Brian Swimme
Related – Integral with the Planet – The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos
Carl Sagan – Message To Humanity
“We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: star stuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”
– Carl Sagan
Related – Who Speaks for Earth – Pale Blue Dot – Crazy People
Alan Watts – What is Wrong With Our Culture
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
– Alan Watts
Related – Nature Of Now – Meaningless Life – The Organic Dance of Life
Robert Anton Wilson – Don’t believe in anyone else’s BS
“Never believe fully in anybody else’s B.S. I don’t care if it’s Rajneesh, The Pope, L. Ron Hubbard, Al Gore, George Bush or I don’t care who it is, don’t swallow all of their belief system totally. Don’t accept all of their bullshit, all their B.S.
The second rule is like unto to the first: Don’t believe totally in your own B.S. Which means that, as Bucky Fuller said, “The universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events”. NON-SIMULTANEOUSLY. The universe consists of NON-SIMULTANEOUSLY apprehended events. Which means any belief system or reality tunnel you’ve got right now is gonna have to be revised and updated as you continue to apprehend new events later in time. Not simultaneously.
This is the natural functioning of the human brain. It’s the way children’s brains perform before they’re wrecked by the school system. It’s the way the minds of all great scientists and artists work. But once you have a belief system, everything that comes in either gets ignored if it doesn’t fit the belief system, or gets distorted enough so that it can fit into the belief system. You gotta be continually revising your map of the world.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
Related – RAW Quantum Physics – Real Reality – 7 Circuits
Terence McKenna – What Did You Do To Help Save The World?
“Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet.” – Terence McKenna
Related – Nobody is smarter than you are – Hope – Culture is not your friend
Mister Rogers – Garden of Your Mind
“When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
– Fred Rogers
Related – Mister Rogers & the US Senate – A Glorious Dawn – The Unbroken Thread
Jacque Fresco – Earth 2.0
“Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.”
“War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.”
“We talk about civilization as though it’s a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it’s a process that’s constantly going on… As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.”
Related – Imagining a World Without Money – Jacque Interview 1974