Everyone is a Taoist at heart. Everyone would like to follow nature, but we don't have enough tools yet to put the philosophy into practice... as soon as someone gets sick, they fight the illness, rather than trying to find out the meaning or purpose behind it.
Arnold MindellPeople have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness.
Arnold MindellThe various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.
Arnold MindellThe larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.
Arnold MindellAll I know for sure is that dreams are the pictures of states wanting to turn into processes. Dreams are maps of the beginning of an otherwise unchartered trip into the unknown. They are pictures of the unknown which appear in many channels. Because process work is body-oriented, I put a stress upon feelings, but dreams are not pictures of just feelings; they are pictures of the way the unknown is showing itself in a given moment.
Arnold Mindell