I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.
Trust your intuition and be guided by love.
Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.
We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle is simply something that is impossible from an old story but possible from within a new one. It is an expansion of what is possible.
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.
True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
I think most kids have a sense that it’s not supposed to be this way. You’re not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when you don’t have to go to school. School should be something that you love. Life should be something that you love.
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave – one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.