Arnold Mindell Quotes

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.

We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.

Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.

People have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness.

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

Many of us would like the world to change, but we don't want to endure the trouble of helping make it happen.

The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.