Thomas Ferguson

“The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, “the will to be oneself.”5”
― Peter Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Church, Updated and Expanded Edition: A Strategy for Discipleship That Actually Changes Lives

“And that essential mistake that mankind has enshrined is the fiction of an independent self—a self over all, over nature, over groups that we marginalize, over the partners and children we crazily try to control, over the neighbors with whom we compete, over the planet we disrespect. That is our potentially fatal error. We will awaken, or we will hand down misery for generations. We will learn, or we will destroy. This world does not belong to us. We belong to one another.”
― Terrence Real, Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship

“My coffee cup is empty. Why don't you pour your love in and wake up my soul?”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Once we move beyond individualistic myths like survival of the fittest, and wake up to our interdependence, it dawns on us that the willful denial of connection has consequences both to those who are denied and to the deniers. The cost of disconnection is disconnection. If us consciousness unifies, you and me consciousness fragments—our communities, our personal relationships, our very souls. As we will explore in some detail, the legacy of individualism is loneliness.”
― Terrence Real, Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship