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“A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.”

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Jonas Salk was a renowned medical researcher, best known for his contributions to vaccine development. His most famous achievement was the invention of the polio vaccine, which significantly reduced the incidence of the disease. more

“Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.”

“Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.”

Enjoy Intelligent Complexity

Author:Brenda Laurel

“It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.”

Should Movement Genius Behavior Patterns Unexpected Collectives Surprising

Author:William Irwin Thompson

“We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.”

Simplicity Hunger Nobility

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.”

Source: America dances

“I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one. Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.”

Littles Eye Spiritual Form Practice Shining Quitting Limitation Dawn Delusion Diamond Deep Inside Spiritual Practice Muster

Author:Bo Lozoff

“That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody's mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.”

World Want Giving Mind Heart Spirit Pieces Trouble Open Heart Giving Everything

Author:Laurens van der Post

“We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.”

Stills Fall Civilization Right Now Unusual Minimum Maximum Predicaments

Author:Al Gore

“In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.”

Terrible Responsible Guilty Free Society

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.”

Reality Vision Genius Obsessed Our Society Nuts Automobile

Author:Rodger Kamenetz

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