“I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.” IfsKnowsHumansBeliefHuman BeingsTeachTrumpLogicHonestlyTraditionalIdeologyVulnerabilityPurityGraciousVanquish Author:Irwin Kula
“Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.” ThinkingHumansMadeHuman BeingsAnimalObjectsMachinesTraditionalCellsAtomsAcademicOrgansMoleculesTissues Author:Stanislav Grof
“Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.” HumansArtSaidCultureLanguageHuman BeingsAnimalEvolutionCreaturesSurvivalUniqueTraditionalCombinationUniquenessBeing HumanDependencyHuman LanguageBiological EvolutionLanguage Arts Author:Donald Johanson
“A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.” IfsHumansHas BeensHelpingSpiritualReligiousHuman BeingsMajorsConnectionsFundamentalsUnityTraditionalIndividualismSensibilityThrustInterdependenceEthosInterconnectionWeb Of Life Book:The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism Source: The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism