Stand Up To Challenge & Controversy

"The ultimate measure of a person

is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience,

but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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[GMW #2915]

Embrace Challenge To See The World

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag,

but to embrace the challenge, 

enjoy the air and behold the view. 

Climb it so you can see the world, 

not so the world can see you.

~ David McCullough

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[GMW #3076]

Hope Is What We Become In Action

FRITJOF CAPRA: In your latest book, EcoMind, you pose the question, "Is there a way of perceiving the environmental challenge that is at once hardheaded, evidence based, and invigorating?" And then you write, "I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down." ...

FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ: It was a totally unplanned book, and it has changed my life. ...
I asked whether we could break through to more of an ecological way of seeing and feeling. ...
We should not bless what we're doing now with the term "growth." We should call it what it is, an economy of waste and destruction. ...
The challenge is ... "How do we remake our human-made systems to align positively with what we know creates sustainable and resilient communities?" ...
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[GMW #3023]