If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.
We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong.
Let’s not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?
The meaning of your communication is the response you get.
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.
Without context words and actions have no meaning at all.
Yes, metaphor. That’s how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
After mastery comes artistry and not before.
The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.
Things have to be done fast in America, and therefore therapy has to be brief.
Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty. Most of us do not today believe that whatever the ups and down of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.