Arnold Mindell Quotes

#1. When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Sarah Jessica Parker

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

Arnold Mindell

#3. Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression
this is the Mystery of its evolution.

Arnold Mindell

#4. Arya Maloney updates the basis and practice of transpersonal psychology by using the spiritual principles of India's masters and the transformational alchemy inherent in his clients' processes. His work is both enlightening and informative.

Arnold Mindell

#5. A living gale is better than a dead calm.

Carolyn Wells

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

Arnold Mindell

#7. From the day he first walked through the door of the Oval Office, President Obama's top priority has been growing our economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding middle class security.

Denis McDonough

#8. It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart

Atticus Poetry

#9. We risk all in being too greedy.

Jean De La Fontaine

#10. 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.

Arnold Mindell

#11. 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.

Arnold Mindell

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

Arnold Mindell

#13. The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

Aldous Huxley

#14. I am Not The Best, But I Have The Potential To Be Something Great.

Anderson Silva

#15. 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.

Arnold Mindell

#16. I bear a little more than I can bear.

Elinor Wylie

#17. Everyone is a Taoist at heart. Everyone would like to follow nature, but we don't have enough tools yet to put the philosophy into practice ... as soon as someone gets sick, they fight the illness, rather than trying to find out the meaning or purpose behind it.

Arnold Mindell

#18. It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Anthony Trollope

#19. Frequently we're asked to come in when the Tao is conflict and crisis. We encourage people to let that Tao happen and not repress it. Especially in new age circles, people just hate conflict and try to repress it.

Arnold Mindell

#20. It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

Meghan Daum

#21. Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art

Steven Pressfield

#22. The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

Thomas S. Monson

#23. What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

Danny Meyer

#24. We are neither this way nor that; we are a body which is in the midst of change and evaporating. We are timeless, thousands of years old, and involved with processes which go beyond our present identity. This gives us an eternal feeling, but one which is realizable right here in the moment.

Arnold Mindell

#25. Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Charles Caleb Colton

#26. 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.

Arnold Mindell

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

Arnold Mindell

#28. I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

P.T. Barnum