Mindell Quotes

#1. 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

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

Arnold Mindell

#3. Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#4. It's the story of a bookseller who finds a handbag in the street one day, takes it home with him, empties out its contents and decides to look for the woman who owns it. He succeeds but when he finds her, he runs off like an idiot.

Antoine Laurain

#5. 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

#6. Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.

Oliver Goldsmith

#7. If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

S.D. Gordon

#8. I need answers. I need a path." "Go, get your guy. I've got this. Trust me, Nat. I'm calm."... "Hi, I'm Laura. You're going to tell me everything I want to hear.

Nathan Edmondson

#9. My love we spend so much time together that time is insuffcient to my satisifaction simply because there is not enough time to spend with you!

Delano Johnson

#10. 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

#11. He is what He is and there was never a time when he wasn't.

J. Budziszewski

#12. I am always doing what I thought I couldn't do because I Thought I might learn something.
Henri Marcel French Artist

Brenda H. Sedgwick

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

Arnold Mindell

#14. 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

#15. Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.

Mary Roach

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

Arnold Mindell

#17. robots are "only one software upgrade away" from full autonomy, as Scientific American has recently argued.

David A. Mindell

#18. 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

#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. If you shoot, I will kill her before I die."
Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

Jim Butcher

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Check on your child, though, rather than letting him cry it out until he falls asleep. Not checking seems to prolong the process. Remember, the goal is to have your child fall asleep on his own, not to make your child upset.

Jodi A. Mindell

#24. 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

#25. The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity ... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.

Woodrow Wilson

#26. 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

#27. The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

#28. I'm so full of power, I feel like I can see without opening my eyes. Like I could go nova if I wanted to and have my own galaxy. Is this what it's like to be Simon Snow? To have infinity in your chest pocket?

Rainbow Rowell