“Focusing on the brevity of life and sanctity of nature and fragility of the planet can sharpen our awareness of how precious this experience is but can also swerve us into a darker focus. We have to be deft enough to go into the cataclysm and say ‘how can we use our...
“All systems are entropic – all systems that define human beings into organised patterns of behaviour and outcome, like jobs, taxes, social constructs… All of these systems are vile, spiritually bankrupt, and entropic – programmed to autodestruct....
“When parents respond to their children with connection, we will see adults who have a lot less hurt to act out on. It’s that hurt that drives us to plunder our planets’ resources and make off-track decisions, that fosters greed and consumerism and lack of...
“While I am here, let me be here, let me really engage with the here and now as presented to me. You can lose a lot of the here and now by being distracted by how things ought to be. We are always giving and transacting and you don’t know what that gift is you are...
“We are in the dying throes of a consumer era of democracy where choosing between the options that someone else has designed is the primary form of political engagement.” ~ Jon Alexander EPISODE 27 – JON ALEXANDER ON CITIZENSHIP, PARTICIPATION AND CONSUMERISM...
“Women are active in the space where they have been historically confined to. It’s not something you are born with – that eagerness to help – it’s something you learn… and sometimes you learn it because you have no other choice with what’s around...
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