Quotes by Community We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way. Terry Tempest Williams communityanimalwater Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change. Terry Tempest Williams communityimaginationteamwork Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone. Terry Tempest Williams communityrealpersonality Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. Terry Goodkind slavecommunitylife-is I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher progresscommunityrights I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community. Terry Tempest Williams communitypowerlistening I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time. Terry Tempest Williams communitywindwater The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances. Terence McKenna communitysubstancepeculiar Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage. Terry Tempest Williams persistencecommunitykind Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. Terry Tempest Williams communitystoriesinspire When you look at the Pueblo communities along the Rio Grande, when you talk to the Navajo people, the Ute people, and certainly the native peoples of California who still have their communities intact, it is what they have always known: that we are not apart from nature but a part of it. Terry Tempest Williams californiacommunitypeople I really do believe if there is hope in the world, then it is to be found within our own communities with our own neighbors, and within our own homes and families. Terry Tempest Williams communityhomebelieve I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come to a more ethical view of life within our communities that is more inclusive than exclusive, one that is extended even beyond our own species. Terry Tempest Williams communityspiritualviews Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world. Thabo Mbeki communityreligiouspeople Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must go back to communities. Not chiefs and traditional leaders. Thabo Mbeki issuescommunityland I am a community activist, philanthropist, breast cancer survivor, advocate and founder and board chair of the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund. I am also a parent, grandparent, and a doting pet owner. Thelma Jones grandparentcancercommunity The question arose, how would the communities manage this land on their own. That's why the Communal Land Rights Bill then borrows an institution that is set up in terms of the role and function and powers of the institutional traditional leadership ( borrows that committee and uses that committee). Thabo Mbeki communitylandrights I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home. Terry Tempest Williams communityhomebelieve What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move. Terence McKenna communityrealmoving Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community. Terence McKenna cannabisgluecommunity«169170171172173174175176177178179»
