Many books and the thoughts of wise people inspired me to create the initiative of meditation with the intention of a Vegan World – UnitedVegans.space. I believe this is an expression of both the collective unconscious and collective consciousness, which have only manifested through my actions. The quotes and thoughts collected here serve as an encouragement to act, but with a deep awareness of unity and connection with all beings, and, above all, care for our inner positive energy. I have gathered them here to show how many people have thought similarly and to potentially inspire you as well. I wholeheartedly recommend reading them and paying tribute to their wisdom. Without the incredible support and assistance of my dear friends – Sebastian, Edyta, Marta, Morgan, Mike, Adam, Allison & Jared – this page simply would not exist… Thank you!
Many books and the thoughts of wise people inspired me to create the initiative of meditation with the intention of a Vegan World – UnitedVegans.space. I believe this is an expression of both the collective unconscious and collective consciousness, which have only manifested through my actions. The quotes and thoughts collected here serve as an encouragement to act, but with a deep awareness of unity and connection with all beings, and, above all, care for our inner positive energy. I have gathered them here to show how many people have thought similarly and to potentially inspire you as well. I wholeheartedly recommend reading them and paying tribute to their wisdom. Without the incredible support and assistance of my dear friends – Sebastian, Edyta, Marta, Morgan, Mike, Adam, Allison & Jared – this page simply would not exist… Thank you!
The power of thoughts, feelings and imagination
The power of thoughts,
feelings and imagination
„The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates
„It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela
„Nasze marzenia i wizje przyszłości są kluczowe, by nawigować przez życie, bo wskazują, w jakim kierunku zmierzać. Jak zauważył kiedyś rzymski filozof Seneka: “Dla żeglarza, który nie wie, do jakiego portu podąża, niepomyślny jest każdy wiatr.” Poza tym łapiemy wiatr w żagle, gdy podążamy do celu, który nas ekscytuje, inspiruje i dodaje energii naszej podróży, a nasza determinacja w pokonywaniu przeszkód zostaje wzmocniona. Umiejętność pochwycenia inspirującej wizji jest zatem kluczem do podtrzymania naszej motywacji. A gdy porusza nas wizja dzielona z innymi, zostajemy częścią społeczności, którą łączy wspólny cel.” Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
„It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.” Edgar Cayce
„Compassion is one of the highest of all of the energy attractor power patterns” David R. Hawkins „Power vs. Force”
„A powerful mental shift takes place when we stop telling ourselves why something can’t happen. When we can envision a hoped-for future, we strengthen our belief that it is possible. By inhabiting this vision with all our senses, imagining what colors and shapes we see, the expressions on people’s faces, the sounds we hear, the smells, taste, and feel of this future, we bring ourselves there in a way that activates our creative, visionary, and intuitive faculties. As the poet Rumi once wrote: “Close both eyes to see with the other eye.”. Joanna Macy i Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
„If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney
„To underline the crucial importance of visioning, consider how many aspects of our present reality started out as someone’s dream. There was a time when much of America was a British colony, when women didn’t have the vote, and when the slave trade was seen as essential to the economy. To change something, we need to first hold in our mind and heart the possibility that it could be different.” Joanna Macy i Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
„Begin with the end in mind. All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things.” Sephen Covey „The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
„Everything we do has ripples of influence extending far beyond what we can see.” Joanna Macy i Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
“(…) a few loving thoughts during the course of the day more than counterbalance all of our negative thoughts by their sheer
power.” David R. Hawkins „Power vs. Force”
The Global Consciousness Project is an international experiment created by physicists and engineers under the leadership of researcher Roger Nelson to study the role that consciousness and intentions play in the physical world. www.gcp2.net
Why power, not force
„If we analyze the nature of force, it becomes readily apparent why it must always succumb to power; this is in accordance with one of the basic laws of physics. Because force automatically creates counter-force, its effect is limited by definition. We could say that force is a movement. It goes from here to there (or tries to) against opposition. Power, on the other hand, stands still. It is like a standing field that does not move. Gravity itself, for instance, does not move against anything. Its power moves all objects within its field, but the gravity field itself does not move. Force always moves against something, whereas power does not move against anything. Force is intrinsically incomplete and therefore has to constantly be fed energy. Power is total and complete in and of itself and requires nothing from outside of itself. It makes no demands; it has no needs. Because force has an insatiable appetite, it constantly consumes. Power, in contrast, energizes, gives forth, supplies, and supports. Power gives life and energy. Force takes these away. We notice that power is associated with compassion and makes us feel positively about ourselves. Force is associated with judgmentalism and tends to make us feel badly about ourselves.” David R. Hawkins „Power vs. Force”
„When you act on behalf of something greater than yourself, you begin to feel it acting through you with a power that is greater than your own.” Joanna Macy
„All attacks, therefore, whether mental or physical, result in counterattack.” David R. Hawkins
The transforming power of empathy and love
The transforming power
of empathy and love
„(…) the energy of a loving thought is enormously more powerful than that of a negative one.” David R. Hawkins „Power vs. Force”
„Inasmuch as every human has within himself the same essence of consciousness, genius is a potential that resides within everyone. It awaits only the right circumstances to express itself.” David R. Hawkins „Power vs. Force”
„Veganism. Daily practice of empathy.” Maja Madejska
„Toxic polarization blocks the conversations and partnerships we need in order to address the problems we face.” Joanna Macy i Chris Johnstone „Power vs. Force”
„There is no such thing as bad people. There are only suffering ones. It’s not about justifying them, but about compassion. Blaming and condemning won’t help them. We can feel compassion even when we disagree.” Bourbeau Lise „Heal Your Wounds and Find Your True Self”
„Unhappily, the extensive moralizing within the ecological movement has given the public the false impression that they are being asked to make a sacrifice — to show more responsibility, more concern and a nicer moral standard. But all of that would flow naturally and easily if the self were widened and deepened so that protection of nature was felt and perceived as protection of our very selves.”. Arne Næss
„If land-based mammals can return to the oceans and evolve into dolphins, then it is not such a stretch to think that modern human beings could return to a state of connectedness with the land and evolve into a wiser form of life.” Joanna Macy i Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
„From our own struggles to better ourselves, we learn compassion for those still in the grip of inner conflict; out of this grows a wisdom, including compassion, for the entire human condition.“ David R. Hawkins „Power vs. Force”
“When that dawns in you, then you know that this is not a battle between good people and bad people, but that the line between good and evil runs through the landscape of every human heart. And you know that we are so interwoven in the web of life that even our smallest acts have repercussions that ripple through the whole web beyond our capacity to discern.” Joanna Macy i Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha
Green Tara mantra
I can’t, but we can!
„Together we can be wiser than any of us can be alone” Co-Intelligence Institute
„At every level, from atoms and molecules to cells, organs, and organisms, complex wholes arise bringing new capacities into existence. At each level, the whole acts through its parts to achieve more than we could ever imagine from examining the parts alone. So what new capacities emerge when groups of people act together to form larger complex social systems?” Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
„A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” Yoko Ono
„Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
„When we share our cause with others, allies appear; synergy occurs. For when we act for causes larger than ourselves, the larger community for whom we do this starts acting through us.” Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
„(…) The Endosymbiotic Theory. This theory proposes that important steps in our evolution have occurred through cooperation between species, even to the point of separate organisms joining together to create entirely new forms of life. As its leading proponents, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, write, “Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking.” Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
We are one
„(…) Gaia theory and environmental challenges, have provoked the emergence of a new way of thinking about ourselves. No longer just citizens of this country or that, we are discovering a deeper collective identity. As many indigenous traditions have taught for generations, we are part of the Earth.” Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
„What we most need to do, is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.” Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist monk’s answer to the question – How to save the world?
„If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees” Rainer Maria Rilke „The Book of Hours”
„Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I vow to cultivate compassion and learn ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life..” Thich Nhat Hanh, The First Mindfulness Training
„Aware of the suffering caused by exploitation, social injustice, stealing and oppression, I vow to cultivate loving kindness and learn ways to work for the well being of people, animals, plants and minerals. I vow to practice generosity by sharing my time, energy and material resources with those who are in real need. I am determined not to steal and not to possess anything that should belong to others. I will respect the property of others, but I will prevent others from profiting from human suffering or the suffering of other species on Earth.” Thich Nhat Hanh, The Second Mindfulness Training
„If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the Earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the Earth, we are the consciousness of the Earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the Earth.” Joseph Campbell
„Every human being has a sacred duty to protect the welfare of our mother Earth from whom all life comes.” Leon Shenandoah, The Haudenosaunee Chief, excerpt from his speech to the United Nations in 1985.
Synergy and synchrony
„Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.” Carl Gustav Jung
„Follow your bliss, and the universe will open doors for you where before there were only walls.” Joseph Campbell
„(…) Providence. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” Joanna Macy i Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
Discover the Szambala warrior within you!
Discover the Szambala
warrior within you!
There comes a time when all life on Earth is in danger. At that time great powers have arisen, barbarian powers. Although they waste their wealth in preparations to annihilate each other, they have much in common. Among the things they have in common are weapons of unfathomable destructive power and technologies that lay waste to the world. It is just at this point, when the future of all beings hangs by the frailest of threads, that the kingdom of Shambhala emerges.
Now you cannot go there because it is not a place. It exists in the hearts and minds of the Shambhala warriors. And you can’t tell whether someone is a Shambhala warrior just by looking at them because they wear no uniforms or insignia. They have no banners to show which side they are on, no barricades on which to climb to threaten the enemy or behind which to rest or regroup. The Shambhala warriors don’t have any home turf; there is only the terrain of the barbarian powers for them to move across and use.
Now the time comes when great courage is required of the Shambhala warriors–moral courage and physical courage. That is because they are going right into the heart of the barbarians’ power to dismantle their weapons–weapons in every sense of the word. As they make their way into the pits and citadels where the armaments are made and deployed, so are they also entering the corridors of power where the decisions are made.
Now heed this: the Shambhala warriors know these weapons can be dismantled. That is because they are manomaya, meaning “mind-made.” They are made by the human mind, so they can be unmade by the human mind. The unearthly dangers facing us today on hair-trigger alert are not fashioned by some Satanic deity, or by an evil extraterrestrial force, or by some immutable, preordained fate. These dangers are created by our relationships, our habits, our choices.
So, now is the time, said Choegyal Rinpoche, for the Shambhala warriors to go into training. How do they train? Joanna asked. They train in the use of two implements or tools, he said. And when she asked “What are they?”, he held up his hands the way the dancers hold up the ritual objects–the dorje and bell– in the great lama dances of his people. “One,” he said, “is compassion. The other is insight into the radical interdependence of all things.”
You need both, he said. You need compassion because it provides the fuel to move you out to where you need to be to do what you need to do. It means not being afraid of the suffering of your world. That weapon is very hot. By itself, it is so hot, it can burn you out.
So you need the other weapon too, the insight that reveals the interbeing of all that is. When that dawns in you, then you know that this is not a battle between good people and bad people, but that the line between good and evil runs through the landscape of every human heart. And you know that we are so interwoven in the web of life that even our smallest acts have repercussions that ripple through the whole web beyond our capacity to discern. But that knowing is kind of cool; it can seem at times a little conceptual and abstract. That’s why it needs the heat of compassion…”. Joanna Macy i Chris Johnstone „Active Hope”
