Saved by Stuart Evans
Presentation to Uplift Festival, 12.14.2014
When we understand ourselves as Citizens, we embrace a different story of humanity. When we recognise this, we see that we all have power, and we see tremendous potential for change. In order to unleash this, what we need to do now is understand the stories we are telling ourselves, take deep care with our language, and build from there.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
When we understand ourselves as Citizens, we embrace a different story of humanity. When we recognise this, we see that we all have power, and we see tremendous potential for change. In order to unleash this, what we need to do now is understand the stories we are telling ourselves, take deep care with our language, and build from there.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
The alchemy happens in a circle. We need to weave together our threads of care and transfigure this tapestry. It is only together that we can reimagine the territorial treaty we’ve inherited as a generous invitation to a communal feast. Look around. Your allies are everywhere. And they love you.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
For that is what a miracle is: a shift in thinking which then shifts your experience. This shift in perception—your willingness to look beyond appearances—enables you to invoke a different set of probabilities going forward. It enables you to see beyond what’s happening to what could be happening, thus creating the space for something new.
Marianne Williamson • The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
And across my life of conversation, I have learned that wisdom and wholeness emerge in moments precisely like ours, though ours is writ large, where human beings have to hold seemingly opposing realities in a creative tension and interplay, power and frailty, birth and death, pain and hope, mystery and conviction, brokenness and beauty, calm and fi... See more
Krista Tippett • Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness
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A hopeful future demands of us nothing less than our complete presence in the world – not as followers or consumers, but as participants. We have to learn again how to connect in ways that anchor us, ways that build the world we want to inhabit. This is where hope and possibility live.
314 / We need presence, not punditry
The invitation is simple: Let go of indulging in the mind, realize it doesn’t have the answers for you, and it doesn’t have the answers for us collectively. Together we can begin to stop the insanity within ourselves and amongst each other. Realizing our deep, essential nature and finding the peace and happiness that lie there is not just something
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