Peter Buffett Quotes
We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet
The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.
There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.
In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.
What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.
I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.
Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.
It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.
It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is.
We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.
Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.
Don't walk in with a colonial mindset and say, "We know your problem and we're going to fix it."
Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience.
Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.
Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.
All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.
Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.
It's very powerful if you can home in on, and really trust, intuition and its strength. Most men have shunned that in so many ways that they end up squaring off the circle of life.
True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.
Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.
Women have a connection to life force and nurturing. They have a connection that men don't have. It doesn't mean one's better or more important, it's just a difference.
Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.
Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change.
Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.
My gut sense is there's something necessary going on and if I'm too fearful or angry, I feel like I'm feeding it.
I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.
America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.
