Earth Citizen Quotes

“This world is not here for you; you are here for it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“My way is the way of silent revolution; revolution to raise the human consciousness through positive vibrations.”
― Amit Ray, Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth

“Ensuring that our home planet is healthy and life sustaining is an overwhelming priority that undercuts all other human activities. The ship must first float.
Our failure to grasp these fundamental tenants of existence will be our undoing. And one thing is for certain. No calvary is going to come charging to our rescue. We are going to have to rescue ourselves or die trying.
Workable solutions are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. The real issue is our elementary accord with Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms has to be revitalized and re-understood.
The burning question is, How?”
― Lawrence Anthony, Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

“God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than united. God prefers the man who loves than the one who hates. The devil prefers the man who hates than the one who loves.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.”
― Ilchi Lee, Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life

“If we don’t see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creating those changes. We cannot a!ord to entertain superficial changes any more. The changes we need should be deep, real, and thorough.”
― Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

“Awareness in its pure state is nonlocal; there’s no focal point in it. It is unbounded. Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.”
― Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

“Even though consciousness doesn’t seem to be confined to the human brain within the skull, we do experience consciousness through our brain. The transformation of consciousness to attention is facilitated by your brain. Driving thoughts into action is also processed by your brain. Your brain is the seat of the creative observer inside you.”
― Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

“When you make choices, please remember: what is good for you but not good for others won’t be good for you either, eventually; what’s good for you and others but not good for the Earth won’t be good for you or others either, eventually; what’s good for you, others, and the Earth will be good for all.”
― Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

“In order to recognize the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the Truth; and to explain the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the recognition. This is why a wordsmithed Truth is nothing but a shadow of the shadow of the Truth. If Buddha had yawned instead of holding up a fower, would that gesture have been any less representative of the Truth?”
― Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

“Basically it is your choice. No matter what spiritual path you have taken, no matter what experiences you have had, choice is still choice. Spiritual development doesn’t happen automatically. It is choosing the eye of Tao that sees both the whole view of things from a distance and the core of reality from deep inside.”
― Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

“Conscience is the true power. It resides within us. The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world. !is intention and willingness is of course ethical choice, but it is also the most natural, reasonable, and intelligent choice when we realize what we really are. If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.”
― Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

“Where do we begin this process of reevaluation of values? It makes sense to begin with our mind, which is the tool we use to evaluate. Once we make sure it is functioning as it should, we can feel confident in using it to think about our beliefs and priorities.”
― Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

“The source of human life is nature. When nature gets sick, humans cannot avoid getting sick, too.”
― Ilchi Lee, I've Decided to Live 120 Years: The Ancient Secret to Longevity, Vitality, and Life Transformation

“Extremism and all its forms.... It is a poisonous disease may hasten the end of human peace on earth... I hope all to learn how to respect each other..... !! ... and to emphasize that the value of our existence with each other.... Is the continuation of life on Earth .... Hesham Nebr
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التطرف بكل اشكاله ....أفه سامة قد تعجل بنهاية السلام الانساني علي وجه الأرض ....ارجوكم...لنتعلم كيف نحترم بعضنا البعض .....!! ... وأن نؤكد علي قيمة أن وجودنا مع بعض ....هو استمرار للحياة علي وجة الأرض”
― Hesham Nebr

“Every year we become more insular and more inward-focused, at once connected to an amazing virtual global multiplicity yet often detached from the world in any physical, emotional and moral sense. Every decision, from buying food to switching on a light, is mediated by so many logistical, institutional and technological layers that we have no sense of what our actions are responsible for. Our profound alienation from the earth continues.”
― Rob Cowen, Common Ground