Ciara

“The business of grabbing and money-making, through a violent extractive economy that the 1% have built, is burdening the earth and humanity with unbearable and non-sustainable costs, and has brought us to the brink of extinction. We do not have to escape from the earth; we have to escape from the illusions that enslave our minds and make extinction look inevitable.”
― Vandana Shiva, Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

“We have been led to identify ourselves with our destructive side - and that which we have become identified, we overvalue and empower. This has been happening for many generations, reinforcing this harmful image of ourselves.”
― Arkan Lushwala, The Time of the Black Jaguar: An Offering of Indigenous Wisdom for the Continuity of Life on Earth

“The definition of “power” we have embraced as a result of our enculturation in an industrial growth society serves only to destroy us and the Earth community. When we are willing to mine the dark gold of the personal shadow, our definition of power is transformed by love. When we can come to love what the ego considers the worst in us, we become mercifully and skillfully equipped to love what appears unlovable and intolerable in our world.”
― Carolyn Baker, Dark Gold: The Human Shadow and the Global Crisis

“The calling of our time appears to me to be a calling for nothing less than a reconnection of human beings to the web of life. It is a calling to co-create some kind of bridge from this collapsing paradigm to some new way of being on Earth in which we humbly return ourselves to being just one part of the web of life, rather than the crushers of the web itself.”
― Dean Walker, The Impossible Conversation: Choosing Reconnection and Resilience at the End of Business as Usual