From Small is Beautiful, E.F. Schumacher
"From an economic point of view, the central concept of wisdom is permanence...to say the least-which is already very much-we must thoroughly understand the problem and begin to see the possibility of evolving a new lifestyle, with new methods of production and new patterns of consumption: a lifestyle designed for permanance."
From Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution, David L. Roy
"Financial institutions have become our shrines. Needless to say, there is a karmic rebound. The more we value money, the more we find it used, the more - and the more we use it ourselves to evaluate us - money takes on a life of its own, and we end up being manipulated by the symbol we take so seriously. In this sense the problem is that we are not too materialistic but that we are not materialistic enough, because we are so preoccupied with the symbolism that we end up devaluing life itself."
From Bill Plotkin's Nature and the Human Soul, Thomas Berry
“The entrancement with cultural society must be considered as a profound cultural disorientation. It can be dealt with only by a corresponding deep cultural therapy...This awakening is our Human participation in the dream of the Earth. ...Therein the Earth functions at a depth beyond our capacity for active thought. We can only be sensitized to what is being revealed to us. We probably have not had such participation in the dream of the Earth since earlier shamanic times, but therein lies the hope for our future for ourselves and for the entire Earth community”.
From Secrets of a Talking Jaguar, Martin Prechtel
“Knowledge, when treated as a private possession, would like all possessions have to be defended to keep it from being stolen. But an initiated shaman, instead of hoarding, hiding, or defending what he knew, simply has physically become knowledge. Instead of knowing it, he practiced it. After all, it was all in the bones now; one didn’t have to snatch at crumbs of hard-gleaned facts hoping they would lead to a place of knowing and vision. A shaman simply had become something worth seeing, a vision that inspired life in an authentic way”
we've all been waiting for you.
your arrival has been marked,
has been recorded on Earth,
in the Universe,
in the Galaxies,
in all of Space,
in all of Time.
you come with a Birthright, written in love and sung
through all Creation in words which promise
that no matter where you're at,
you're Home
that no matter who you're with,
you're Welcome
that no matter who you are,
you're Loved.
Welcome.
- Rita Ramsey