Transformation Ecology .:. Changing Ourselves As We Change the World

"“Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.”"
- Marianne Williamson

""Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own." "
- Adam Gordon

""All of life is a near-death experience." "
- Alan Harris

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay

""I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.""
- Albert Einstein

""Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you." "
- Aldous Huxley

""When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." "
- Alexander Graham Bell

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
- Anais Nin

""Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." "
- Carl Bard

""It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.""
- Charles Darwin

""No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." "
- Eleanor Roosevelt

""I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." "
- Goethe

""Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." "
- Harold Whitman

""I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.""
- Hermann Hesse

""When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it." "
- J. Krishnamurti

""Laugh, cry, love, nurture, applaud with passion! Be alive in all things, whether it be in quiet contemplation of raucous celebration and spread that aliveness. Transform your life, Transform Your World." "
- Juliee Jordan Scott (Source: Discover Your Passion, Vol 5. No. 55 July 11, 2005)

"Livin' is hard and dying is mean, so get yourself some lovin' in between."
- Langston Hughes

""An eye for an eye will only serve to make the whole world blind." "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." "
- Mahatma Ghandi

"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

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

""If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there is a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.""
- Noam Chomsky

""The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." "
- Pearl S. Buck

""You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value." "
- Phillip C. McGraw

""Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distance continues to exist, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky." "
- Rainer Maria Rilke

""If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that remains is a compromise." "
- Robert Fritz

""Transformation happens less by arguing cogently for something new than by generating active, ongoing practices that shift a group's experience of the basis for reality." "
- Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander (Source: The Art of Possibility, )

""So often creative desires are bleached of their force with the toxic charge of 'frivolity," but if a creative call is authentic, then it won't be frivolous- it will be indeed, be transformative, not just for the artist but for all who experience its fruits.""
- Sarah Stockton (Source: The Gift And Challenge of Creative Tension )

""When you're young, you look at most of the programs on television and think, 'There's a conspiracy! The networks have conspired to dumb us down!' But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in the business to make money by giving people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic. You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution!""
- Steve Jobs

""Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.""
- Steve Jobs

""It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." "
- Wendell Berry

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	TIPS \| ARTICLES \| GLOSSARY \| BOOKS \| QUOTES Transformation Ecology : Research : Quotes "“Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.”" - Marianne Williamson ""Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own." " - Adam Gordon ""All of life is a near-death experience." " - Alan Harris "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay ""I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."" - Albert Einstein ""Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you." " - Aldous Huxley ""When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." " - Alexander Graham Bell "We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." - Anais Nin ""Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." " - Carl Bard ""It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."" - Charles Darwin ""No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." " - Eleanor Roosevelt ""I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." " - Goethe ""Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." " - Harold Whitman ""I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."" - Hermann Hesse ""When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it." " - J. Krishnamurti ""Laugh, cry, love, nurture, applaud with passion! Be alive in all things, whether it be in quiet contemplation of raucous celebration and spread that aliveness. Transform your life, Transform Your World." " - Juliee Jordan Scott (Source: Discover Your Passion, Vol 5. No. 55 July 11, 2005) "Livin' is hard and dying is mean, so get yourself some lovin' in between." - Langston Hughes ""An eye for an eye will only serve to make the whole world blind." "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." " - Mahatma Ghandi "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 "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Niccolo Machiavelli ""If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there is a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours."" - Noam Chomsky ""The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." " - Pearl S. Buck ""You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value." " - Phillip C. McGraw ""Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distance continues to exist, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky." " - Rainer Maria Rilke ""If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that remains is a compromise." " - Robert Fritz ""Transformation happens less by arguing cogently for something new than by generating active, ongoing practices that shift a group's experience of the basis for reality." " - Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander (Source: The Art of Possibility, ) ""So often creative desires are bleached of their force with the toxic charge of 'frivolity," but if a creative call is authentic, then it won't be frivolous- it will be indeed, be transformative, not just for the artist but for all who experience its fruits."" - Sarah Stockton (Source: The Gift And Challenge of Creative Tension ) ""When you're young, you look at most of the programs on television and think, 'There's a conspiracy! The networks have conspired to dumb us down!' But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in the business to make money by giving people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic. You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution!"" - Steve Jobs ""Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."" - Steve Jobs ""It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." " - Wendell Berry TIPS \| ARTICLES \| GLOSSARY \| BOOKS \| QUOTES
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