The Clarity Blog

“If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.” – Willie Nelson

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.” – Patti Smith

“Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.” – E. O. Wilson

“Let’s face it, the universe is messy. It is nonlinear, turbulent, and chaotic. It is dynamic. It spends its time in transient behavior on its way to somewhere else, not in mathematically neat equilibria. It self-organizes and evolves. It creates diversity, not uniformity. That’s what makes the world interesting, that’s what makes it beautiful, and that’s what makes it work.” – Donella Meadows

“It’s important to remember on this anniversary that the true meaning of Woodstock was spiritual. My line about ‘there is little bit of heaven in every disaster area’ was a realized truth.” – Wavy Gravy
 

“Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.” – Amma

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” – Regina Brett

“It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up — release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast, true nature.” — Joanna Macy

“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of humans as self-sufficiency. Humans are social beings.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.” – Kevin Kelly

“I’m not going to knock on any closed doors. I’m going to make my own door.” – Ana DuVernay*

“Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.” – Edith Wharton

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy E. Disney

“Let’s do it right. This is for the ages.” – I. M. Pei

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.” – Marianne Williamson

“Other people are answers to questions, and the biggest question is what question they’re answering.” – Questlove