Our World Quotes - Page 22

• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Doubt, Answers

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Roots, Hatred

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Reality, Views, Common

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• Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Believe, People, Broken

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• It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

  Alain de Botton

  Eye, Would Be, Looks

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.214, Pan Macmillan

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• As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Lying, Loss, Confusion

  Source: rzim.org

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• Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Suffering, Normal

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• ... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.

  Hannah Arendt

  Religious, Loss, Afterlife

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• For me, in those days, the great question was: Does God exist? Or doesn't God exist? Can we, by an attitude of faith, attain to a sense of community and a better world? Or, if God doesn't exist, what do we do then? What does our world look like then? In none of this was there the least political colour.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Attitude, Community, Political

  "Bergman on Bergman: Interviews with Ingmar Bergman" by Stig Bjorkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima, translated by Paul Britten Austin, 1973.

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• As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.

  John Ashcroft

  Civilization, America, Evil

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• Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

  Michel Foucault

  Sex, Gay, Discovery

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• Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.

  Astro Teller

  Science, Intelligent, Winning

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• There is a reason Christianity is violently opposed in our world while other religions and philosophies are tolerated... Biblical Christianity evokes violent responses from some people, because only in Christianity is there an absolute right and wrong. People hate the Bible and Christianity because of the law of God.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Hate

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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• When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it becomes clear that unless you have some roots in a spiritual practice that holds life sacred and encourages joyful communion with all your fellow beings, facing the enormous challenges ahead becomes nearly impossible.

  Joanna Macy

  Spiritual, Practice, Roots

  Joanna Macy (2013). “Greening of the Self”, p.5, Parallax Press

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• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  Jack Dangermond

  Loss, Cities, Issues

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• Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

  Carlos Slim

  Children, People, Trying

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• The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.

  Robert Fripp

  Thinking, Shapes, Way

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• It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.

  Isabel Allende

  Teacher, Children, Writing

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• In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy our world and its inhabitants, after only a brief appearance on the cosmic stage?

  Jill Tarter

  Technology, Long, Population

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• We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.

  Joanna Macy

  Grief, Heart, Compassion

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• We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.

  Jon Anderson

  Giving, Sun, Energy

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• We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

  Dora Russell

  Knowledge, Quests, Want

  "Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell, Vol. 3, Ch. 14, 1985.

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• The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization and decentralization, the economic pieces of the future are being assembled in a new way. Not what is produced by a country or in a country will be of importance, but the production within global Economic Domains, measured as Gross Domain Products. The global market demands a global sharing of talent. The consequence is Mass Customization of Talent and education as the number one economic priority for all countries

  John Naisbitt

  Education, Country, Numbers

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• We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

  Gabor Mate

  Responsibility, Mind, May

  Gabor Mate, M.D. (2009). “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction”, p.396, Knopf Canada

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