“The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from blood-letting and killing, and not surreptitiously fostering it because of their lack of will to change their habits or mode of thinking concerning the animal kingdom.” ThinkingHumanityAnimalResponsibilityMoralBloodHabitKillingKingdomsBuddhistDharmaMoral ResponsibilityFosteringAnimal Kingdom Book:Karma and the Rebirth of Consciousness Source: Karma and the Rebirth of Consciousness
“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.” ShouldWritingYearsFirstsStillsSometimesMatterResponsibilityWeekMaterialsBrokenMonthsHabitCircumstancesCostWeightMarkLifetimeResponsePatternsTake MeAccumulationUnsaidDiscontinuity Book:Silences Source: Silences
“So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.” MenLongRealityResponsibilityPrinciplesInformationStudentsIgnoranceFoolBecomingHabitBehaviorAdvantageUniversalAccessStatementsAccurateMathematicianMonopolyUp And DownGoverningComprehensiveAdjustmentSpecialistsProcessingTraffickingConciseSemantics Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment; each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.” MindLooksEndsHardActionResponsibilityEnvironmentGreaterHabitBalanceCrisisGravesWho We ArePersonal ResponsibilityHabits Of MindDeteriorating Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.” MindResponsibilityEffectsSeriousHabitSakeEnjoymentLastingLeisureAdequateProvision Author:John Dewey
“As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that sometimes when things go wrong, it is just an accident. In order to change how we lay blame, we’re going to have to change our over-protective habits; children can only learn to take responsibility when given a chance to assess and mitigate risk for themselves.” ChildrenSometimesOrderIndividualGivenChanceResponsibilityAcceptingRiskHabitBlameLaysAccidentsTaking ResponsibilityProtectiveWhen Things Go WrongGiven A Chance Author:Gever Tulley