“The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.” GivingActionCertainLevelsConsciousnessCompassionBuddhismBalancePlanes Author:Frederick Lenz
“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.” StatesProblemLastsCertainUnderstandingConsciousnessBuddhismBalanceDrugPerceptionAlteredStates Of ConsciousnessExcursionsAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Frederick Lenz
“And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.” PeopleIfsWorldBelieveEvilForceI BelieveConsciousnessMillionsBalanceGood And EvilCollectivesPhenomenonEmbodiment Author:Deepak Chopra
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.” ThinkingFirstsMatterYoungDeathFallEasyConsciousnessStepsBalanceWeightScalesLife And DeathGravityUnthinkable Book:Temporary Homelands Source: Temporary Homelands
“We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?” PeopleWorldWantNeedsTryingMayRealWholeStuffDifficultConsciousnessVisionHonestBalanceProjectsExperimentsReal WorldEngagementUtopiaAdvancingNeeds And WantsSchemas Author:Gar Alperovitz
“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.” GivingShouldHumansMadeImportantActionForceSoundExistenceConsciousnessClearDoubtDependsBalanceMoralityAuthorityJudgmentDignityTasksFoundationStriveMythDependentEndeavorTiedOur ActionsLegitimacySound Judgment Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives