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All truth passes three stages: first, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force... When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life…

Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

Beyond beliefs of right, beyond beliefs of wrong, there is a field; can we meet there?

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world . . . . Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for . . . success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

I am one. I cannot do everything-but I can do something. I will do what I can.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities

If we each bring a basket of food and share it, together we have a feast

No problem can ever be solved by the consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.

I say to you: one must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star.

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.

It is individuals who change societies, give birth to ideas; who, standing out against tides of opinion, change them.

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

Real community preparedness must, in a very short time, make the jump from physical and short-term survival to longer term participatory community process and the mending of differences. This can be done temporarily in a crisis when the common ground of all sides is uncovered, and y2k is a useful template for this. But we have an opportunity to make it deep and lasting.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

The world changes when large numbers of people change the way they think a little bit.

The Iron Law of Results: To get what you've been getting, keep doing what you're doing.

Waiting for the "right time" may work, or it may not. Consider beginning NOW. Start where you are, do what you can, use the gifts you have.

We are all continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We do not do great things. We do only small things with great love.

To know, and not to do is, in fact, not to know

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

When information doubles, knowledge halves and wisdom quarters

When there is no wind, row