A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Always focus on the power of love than the love of power

If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

I think men are afraid to say that they would love to have Michelle Obama in their bed, but they think it.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

What [Adolf Hitler] felt deep inside he wasn't going to show to outsiders.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.