“Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.”

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“In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.”

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“The general picture emerging from Hinduism is one of an organic, growing and rhythmically moving cosmos; of a universe in which everything is fluid and ever-changing.”

from The Cosmic Dance

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“Karma thus came to signify the never-ending chain of cause and effect in human life which the Buddha had broken in attaining the state of enlightenment.”

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“Taoists say that one should not resit the flow, but should adapt one's actions to it... the Taoist sage is one who 'flows in the current of the Tao.'”

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“The metaphor of the cosmic dance unifies ancient mythology, religious art, and modern science... the whole universe is ended in endless motion and activity; in a rhythmic dance of creation and destruction”

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“The more one studies the religious and philosophical texts of the Hindus, Buddhists and Taoists, the more it becomes apparent that in all of them the world is conceived in terms of movement, flow and change.”

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“The central aim of Eastern mysticism is to experience all phenomena in the world as manifisttions of the same ultimate reality.”

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“Heraclitus taught that 'everything flows' and compared the world to an ever-living fire... This emphasis on movement, flow and change has been an essential aspect of the world view of mystics throughout the ages.”

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“the impermanence of all things is the starting point of Buddhism. The Buddha taught that 'all compounded things are impermanent', and that all suffering in the world arises from our trying to cling to fixed forms”

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“for the Buddhists, an enlightened being is one who does not resist the flow of life, but keeps moving with it.”

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“The Hindus call it Brahman, the Buddhist Dharmakaya, and the Taoists Tao; each affirming that it transcends our intellectual concepts and defies further description.”

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“the Hindus were able to develop evolutionary cosmologies which come very close to our modern scientific models”

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“The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.”

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“The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.”

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“Deep ecology does not separate humans - or anything else - from the natural environment. It does not see the world not as a collection of isolated objects but as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent.”

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“The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realize that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent.”

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“The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.”

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“We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature's ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is its inherent ability to sustain life, a sustainable human community must be designed in such a manner that its technologies and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.”

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“The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.”

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“The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.”

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“Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.”

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“Whenever the essential nature of things is analyzed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently.”

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“Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.”

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“At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her.”

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“For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.”

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“Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.”

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“A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.”

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“Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. 'Ordinary' work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.”

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