QUOTES
Every
single person in the world can live a generous life. How you define
generosity is based on you, your values, your ideals, your passions.
Each of us can give our time, treasure, and talents to make the
world a better place.
We need to
pay exquisite attention to our responses to things – noticing
what makes our flame glow brighter. If we pay attention to those
things, we'll be able to catch the flame and feed it.
It's easy
to get bogged down in the circumstantial and mundane, but if we
connect to our passion, that in itself will be regenerative; we
won't have to wait for the energy, it will be there.
When one
hungers for light, it is only because one’s knowledge of the dark
is so deep.
The local
living economy movement is about maximizing relationships, not
maximizing profits. It’s about growth of consciousness and creativity,
not brands and market share; democracy and decentralized ownership,
not concentrated wealth; a living return, not the highest return;
a fair price, not the lowest price; sharing, not hoarding; simplicity,
not gluttony; life-serving, not self-serving; partnership, not
domination; cooperation, not competition; win-win exchange, not
win-lose exploitation; family farms, not factory farms; biodiversity,
not mono-crops; cultural diversity, not monoculture;...
To be the
change we want to see in the world, we need to unearth and heal
a cultural legacy of violence that’s insidiously embedded within
us all. Doing this requires investing in the web of relatedness,
and re-imagining leadership as ongoing practices that every one
of us can do, each in our unique way and in our own circle of
influence. This emergent leadership is congruent, collaborative
and marked by humility. Above all, it is motivated by love. This
transformation will ripple out and impact our societies and ecological
systems in diverse and beneficial ways. It will increase our resilience,
our capacity to rebound after traumatic events, while building
political power and growing beloved community. Perhaps best of
all, this course of action is not only what’s needed to reinvent
our corrupt and broken systems, it is also what’s needed to bring
us more joyful, loving and meaningful lives.
