Fwd: some great thoughts

[Guest guest]

Left-wing , politicnow@a... wrote:

" The major shift in human evolution is from behaving like an animal

struggling to survive to behaving like an animal choosing to evolve.

In fact,

in order to survive, we have to evolve. And to evolve, we need a new

kind of

thinking and a new kind of behavior, a new ethic and a new morality.

It will

be that of the evolution of everyone rather than the survival of the

fittest. "

--Jonas Salk

 

" The only real hope of people today is a renewal of our certainty that

we are

rooted in Earth and, at the same time, in the cosmos. This awareness

endows

us with the capacity for self-transcendence . . . " --Vaclav Havel

 

" A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part

limited

in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as

something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his

consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting

us to

our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Our task

must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of

compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its

beauty. "

--Albert Einstein

 

" Drawn by the force of love, the fragments of the world seek each

other that

the world may come into being. "

--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 

 

Our biggest job is to change our whole way of thinking to a larger

perspective, to recognize ourselves as a body of humanity embedded in,

and

with much to learn from, our living parent planet, which is all we

have to

sustain us. "

--Elisabet Sahtouris

 

 

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can

change

the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has. "

--Margaret Mead

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