Zen phrase says The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark.

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

To believe yourself brave is to be brave

A marvelous feeling -- that you love someone deeply -- and in turn, that person loves you back so sincerely.

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

I trust in the Lord God Almighty ... that he will not take away from me the cup of his redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone