Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy. Barbara Marx Hubbard More Quotes by Barbara Marx Hubbard More Quotes From Barbara Marx Hubbard When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment. Barbara Marx Hubbard renaissance enlightenment world It doesn't matter where anybody lives, we're all here. Barbara Marx Hubbard matter I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is the time to establish our extraterrestrial base in freedom; later it may be under the coercion of necessity. Barbara Marx Hubbard limited-resources space believe Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us. Barbara Marx Hubbard creative mother giving All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody. Barbara Marx Hubbard born creative people We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy. Barbara Marx Hubbard vision freedom order Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design. Barbara Marx Hubbard transition design growth We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body. Barbara Marx Hubbard lasts body waiting Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity. Barbara Marx Hubbard humanity self mean We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world. Barbara Marx Hubbard creativity responsibility self The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body. Barbara Marx Hubbard eugenics population body The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable. Barbara Marx Hubbard jerusalem path book Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution. Barbara Marx Hubbard future views past My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution. Barbara Marx Hubbard unique humanity opportunity Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution. Barbara Marx Hubbard transition team humanity Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs. Barbara Marx Hubbard jealousy wise depression By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator. Barbara Marx Hubbard design understanding expression If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species. Barbara Marx Hubbard sacrifice motivation hard-work I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations. Barbara Marx Hubbard issues climate thinking Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. Barbara Marx Hubbard growing soul people