"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
- Saul Bellow
“No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s own culture but within oneself.”
- Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
"The key to a comprehensive theory of living systems lies in the synthesis of two very different approaches, the study of substance (or structure) and the study of form (or pattern). In the study of structure we weigh and measure things. Patterns, however, cannot be measured or weighed; they must be mapped. To understand a pattern we must map a configuration of relationships. In other words, structure involves quantities while patterns involve qualities."
- Jim Merkel
These days I tend more toward mantras and guiding questions than quotes.
ReplyDeleteHere are a few that are present for me in this moment:
-What is one thing my nervous system needs right now?
-I am embodying my wholeness.
-The only way out is through.