Weekly Pause & Ponder

It’s not that we need to form new organizations. It’s simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future.

Dr. Don Beck, http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/5-evolutionary-thinkers-you-should-know-about

Weekly Pause & Ponder

There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

Barbara Marx Hubbard,
http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/5-evolutionary-thinkers-you-should-know-about 

Weekly Pause & Ponder

The universe is truly a symphony of the stars. And when our body-mind is in synch with this symphony, everything is spontaneous and effortless, and the synch with this symphony, everything is spontaneous and effortless, and the exuberance of the universe flows through us in joyful ecstasy. 

When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature’s rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It’s that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature’s intelligence to flow through us without interfering.

        From: spiritlibrary.com/deepak-chopra/live-in-grace-dancing-with- the-universe. 

Weekly Pause & Ponder

“The secret of enlightenment is the absolute, unequivocal conviction that it exists.”

What does this mean?  It means you have discovered an unshakable confidence in the fact of nonduality – in the perennial mystical revelation that IT IS . . . and I AM THAT.  A confidence in that which can never be seen or known is the very ground of the enlightened state.  Being is ungraspable, it’s unknowable, it’s ever elusive, and yet it is the only place you can find true confidence in life.  Why?  Because it is the very source of life itself.  

From Andrew Cohen Quotes (Author of Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening, www.goodreads.come/author/quotes/151698.Andrew-Cohen. 

Weekly Pause & Ponder

The new art of living requires an awareness that learning constitutes the very process of the life of a human being and that when learning stops a person stops and a civilization dies. Learning is a process that has no end as long as one is in this world. The world itself is the primary school for learning and needs to be understood as that. Learning constitutes the deepest prayer of the human person, the deepest awareness that she or he is a modality of process reflecting the cosmogenesis as a whole, a microcosm in a beautiful macrocosm. 

MANIFESTO for a global civilization by Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme, p. 47.