Ciara

“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

“This is the work that we all have done everything in our power to avoid.”
― Dean Walker, The Impossible Conversation: Choosing Reconnection and Resilience at the End of Business as Usual

“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

“Most people in the world do not fly in airplanes. 2˚C and mitigation are not about population. It is about US, the biggest consumers, reducing our consumption and emissions immediately.”
― Dean Walker, The Impossible Conversation: Choosing Reconnection and Resilience at the End of Business as Usual