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.
The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.
Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
Creative thought must always contain a random component.
There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.
Science probes; it does not prove.