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The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible Quotes

“I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.

Fear it or not, it is happening already.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“The more beautiful world my heart knows is possible is a world with a lot more pleasure: a lot more touch, a lot more lovemaking, a lot more hugging, a lot more deep gazing into each other’s eyes, a lot more fresh-ground tortillas and just-harvested tomatoes still warm from the sun, a lot more singing, a lot more dancing, a lot more timelessness, a lot more beauty in the built environment, a lot more pristine views, a lot more water fresh from the spring. Have you ever tasted real water, springing from the earth after a twenty-year journey through the mountain? None of these pleasures is very far away. None requires any new inventions, nor the subservience of the many to the few. Yet our society is destitute of them all. Our wealth, so-called, is a veil for our poverty, a substitute for what is missing. Because it cannot meet most of our true needs, it is an addictive substitute. No amount can ever be enough. Many of us already see through the superficial substitute pleasures we are offered. They are boring to us, or even revolting. We needn’t sacrifice pleasure to reject them. We need only sacrifice the habit, deeply ingrained, of choosing a lesser pleasure over a greater. Where does this habit come from? It is an essential strand of the world of separation, because most of the tasks that we must do to keep the world-devouring machine operating do not feel very good at all. To keep doing them, we must be trained to deny pleasure.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“The situation on Earth today is too dire for us to act from habit—to reenact again and again the same kinds of solutions that brought us to our present extremity. Where does the wisdom to act in entirely new ways come from? It comes from nowhere, from the void; it comes from inaction. When we see it, we realize it was right in front of us all along. It is never far away; yet at the same time it is in a different universe—a different Story of the World.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“The things we think we want are often substitutes for what we really want, and the pleasures we seek are less than the joy that they distract us from.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“Usually, destructive pleasure-seeking behavior arises as an outburst of pent-up desire, and not as the expression of authentic desire.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“What is power, after all? Every one of the power elite’s overwhelming advantages—military forces, surveillance systems, crowd control technology, control over the media, and nearly all the money in the world—depends on having people obeying orders and executing an assigned role. This obedience is a matter of shared ideologies, institutional culture, and the legitimacy of the systems in which we play roles. Legitimacy is a matter of collective perception, and we have the power to change people’s perceptions.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

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More quotes by Herbert J. Muller

“Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we have made it bleak: obscured its vibrant mystery with our ideological blinders, severed its infinite connectedness with our categories, suppressed its spontaneous order with our pavement, reduced its infinite variety with our commodities, shattered its eternity with our time-keeping, and denied its abundance with our money system?”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“You can’t just do whatever you feel like.” “You can’t just do anything you want.” “You have to learn self-restraint.” “You’re only interested in gratifying your desires.” “You don’t care about anything but your own pleasure.” Can you hear the judgmentality in these admonitions? Can you see how they reproduce the mentality of domination that runs our civilization? Goodness comes through conquest. Health comes through conquering bacteria. Agriculture is improved by eliminating pests. Society is made safe by winning the war on crime. On my walk today, students accosted me, asking if I wanted to join the “fight” against pediatric cancer. There are so many fights, crusades, campaigns, so many calls to overcome the enemy by force. No wonder we apply the same strategy to ourselves. Thus it is that the inner devastation of the Western psyche matches exactly the outer devastation it has wreaked upon the planet. Wouldn’t you like to be part of a different kind of revolution?”

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

The Yoga of Eating Quotes

“Even the most thorough change happens one choice at a time.”

The Yoga of Eating

“True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.”

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