Layne Redmond Quotes

#1. A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women's capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

Layne Redmond

#2. When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

Jesse Jackson

#3. The practice of shared vision involves the skills of unearthing shared "pictures of the future" that foster genuine commitment and enrollment rather than compliance. In mastering this discipline, leaders learn the counterproductiveness of trying to dictate a vision, no matter how heartfelt.

Peter M. Senge

#4. Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.

Layne Redmond

#5. Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.

Layne Redmond

#6. Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

Charlie Kaufman

#7. That's how librarians are. They just can't help it.

Carla Morris

#8. Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#9. It isn't healthy to care for someone who can never love you back.

Nancy Farmer

#10. Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

Javier Marias

#11. Women need the archetypal image of a Divine Female. We need to reconnect with the inherent sacredness of woman as creator and nourisher, rather than accept a vision of ourselves as less-than-divine inferiors.

Layne Redmond