Regen Quotes
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Diversity is valuing difference because it makes a difference:
We see more when there are more of us seeing 👀
We know more when everyone's perspective is sought and incorporated into our learning 🧠
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Margaret Wheatley,
"Who do we choose to be?"
Collaboration is what is most essential to life’s flourishing.
It is the process that creates an ecosystem; greed destroys it.
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Margaret Wheatley
We are offering people not a world of less, not a world of sacrifice, not a world where you are just going to have to enjoy less and suffer more - no, we are offering a world of more beauty, more joy, more connection, more love, more fulfillment, …
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Charles Eisenstein,
"Sacred Economics"
If you're paying any attention to the news from everywhere, it's hard to avoid the specter of collapse ☄️
But then what happens? Do we, as most do, fall into private collapse consumed by fear and despair? (…) 🫣
Or do we acknowledge where we are and step forward to serve? (…) 👣
Blind reactivity and fear are not the answer. Self-protection is not the answer. Denial is not the answer. Sane leadership is. 🤝
What is sane leadership? It is the unshakable faith in people's capacity to be generous, creative and kind. (…) ❤️🩹
It is the deep knowing that, even in the most dire circumstances, more becomes possible as people engage together with compassion and discernment, self-determining their best way forward. 💪
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Margaret Wheatley, "Who do we choose to be?"
Our problems can no longer be addressed with an outdated, mechanistic mindset. It is time to redesign a new way that renders the old way obsolete. 📐
Rather than reducing our negative impact on life, we can contribute to life's evolution. This is what being regenerative is about. 🌱
While we busy ourselves with outer 'doing’, we are numbing our inner 'being’ 🧘🏼♀️🧘🏻♂️
—
Laura Storm,
"Regenerative Leadership"
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. ⚙️
A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system 🏁
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John Gall
Importance of regenerative finance:
Changing the money system may be the most powerful way available to shift our collective behaviour on a global scale
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Bernard Lietaer
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come fully alive.
~
Howard Thurman
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
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10 principles of Burning Man:
1. Radical Inclusion
2. Gifting
3. Decommodification
4. Radical Self-reliance
5. Radical Self-expression
6. Communal Effort
7. Civic Responsibility
8. Leaving No Trace
9. Participation
10. Immediacy
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Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.
Tina Roth-Eisenberg
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Be around the light bringers, the magic makers, the world shifters, the game shakers.
They challenge you, break you open, uplift and expand you.
They don't let you play small with your life.
These heartbeats are your people.
These people are your tribe.
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Danielle Doby