The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
~ Charles Eisenstein
If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm to shift.We must be clear that veganism is the unequivocal baseline of anything that deserves to be called an “animal rights” movement. If “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot morally justify any animal exploitation; we cannot justify creating animals as human resources, however “humane” that treatment may be.We must stop thinking that people will find veganism “daunting” and that we have to promote something less than veganism. If we explain the moral ideas and the arguments in favor of veganism clearly, people will understand. They may not all go vegan immediately; in fact, most won’t. But we should always be clear about the moral baseline. If someone wants to do less as an incremental matter, let that be her/his decision, and not something that we advise to do. The baseline should always be clear. We should never be promoting “happy” or “humane” exploitation as morally acceptable.
~ Gary L. Francione
Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.
~ Kevin Michel
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~ Max Planck
As we watch the process in which the soul becomes thought or speech, we notice that many a time we ease ourselves into convenient clichés that have little of the new insight in them. Once more we are trapped by habits that are the dunghills upon which the creeds feed. It takes vigilance and humble courage to make acts of faith. After all, where faith is weak, there is an abundance of beliefs. With this in mind we may be more humble about our tradition and our sureness, yet also a bit more proud of the holy process in our inner being that keeps teaching and guiding us.
~ Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.
It is time to change the paradigm of the church and of every Christian.
~ Sunday Adelaja
As far as our relation to the physical world, I doubt there will be much more improvement. Our basic survival needs have been met, and much of our current progress is superfluous or downright troublesome. Most advancement is performed out of comfort rather than necessity. What we are lacking, what the world so desperately needs now, is adjustments of the mind. We need to see the world again with fresh eyes, and come to an understanding of who we are as individuals, and what drives us.
~ Chris Matakas
The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.
~ A.j. Darkholme
I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.
~ Ryan Lilly
When I discarded the idea that God was not a man (as I had been raised to think and believe without question), I grew distant, and the flame that once lit my path began to flicker and hiss like a candle burnt to its wick, making longevity impossible without a new energy source.
~ B.g. Bowers
…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.
~ Darrell Calkins
The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.
~ Adriano Bulla
We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it
We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.
~ James C. Emlund
Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles
~ Seth Czerepak
You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.
~ Bob Proctor
Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions.
~ Farshad Asl
LIFE PLAN FOR YOUR DREAMPlan A - Apply for a job and use it to Finance Your dream.Plan B - Borrow Other People's Money (OPM) to Finance your dream if you don't want the job route.Plan C - Consider working full time and pursue your dream part-time.Plan D - Diligently work on your dream until it overtakes your job.Plan E - Effect a paradigm shift by making your dream full time and your job part time.Plan F - F means time to Fire your boss.
~ Oscar Bimpong
A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age.
~ Lisa J. Shultz
She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.
~ Katarina Bivald
Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
~ James Gleick
Do not fight for your rights on streets. Do it elegantly within you!
~ Goran Spasa
