I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
Sharing is having more.
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied; nevertheless, because all elements of a synergetic system support one another, they also support the whole.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.
The impossible happens.
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.
You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place.
You never change people by fighting their existing reality.
Everything we see is inside our own heads.
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
"The further art advances the closer it approaches science," said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow, and other useful instruments from the speaking tube to a mechanically gyp-proof whore-house, "the further science advances the closer it approaches art."
Don't fight forces, use them.
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
The opposite of nature is impossible.
The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.
All human advances occur in the outlaw area.
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
If you change the environment, you change the people.
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.
Man knows so much and does so little.
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
Our power is in our ability to decide.
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
Don't change the man. Change his environment.
Love is metaphysical gravity.
. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
