The Clarity Blog

“And when I do pay attention, very close attention, when I open myself fully to your humanity, your complexity, your reality, then I find, always, under every other feeling and judgement and emotion, that I love you. Even between you and me, even there, the lines are only of our own making.” – Donella Meadows

“More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.” – Stewart Brand

“We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and true security.” – Paul Hawken

“Problem solving is by definition focused on addressing what exists and attempting to make it better. True innovation comes from reaching for the potential in something: it’s possible manifestations that don’t yet exist.” – Carol Sanford

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” – Agha Hasan Abedi

“Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating – whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.” – Sister Corita Kent

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” – Rumi

“Wait a minute. How did this happen? We’re smarter than this.” – Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars

“Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there.” – Prince

“The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.” – George Monbiot

“There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.” – Donella Meadows

“The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.” – Alexander Calder

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” ? Yoko Ono

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” – Toni Morrison