Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

It is through our pain that we emerge.

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Out of our suffering we emerge. Our struggles are really our only hope.

We do not have to see the beginning and the end of our lives, but we must close our eyes and live as if we didn’t start or would never end.

Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships — the experiences of your emerging new self!

When a seed sprouts, it’s a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part...

The further you are challenged and threatened, the more your warrior heart will emerge.

It is no longer enough to just think or talk about what a spiritual connection is, or what it might be. We begin living it fully, one moment at a time.” From “Living Beyond the...

Matter would have the universe a uniform dispersion, motionless, complete. Spirit would have an earth, a heaven and a hell, whirl and conflict, an incandescent sun to drive away the dark, to illuminate good and...

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.

Acorn struggles in pain to crack the hard shell and emerge. For it senses that out there… exists more and it knows it. It feels that there is a sun, even if Acorn hasn’t seen...

Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity and thereby giving rise neogenetically to emergent properties.

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

He had a ruggedness about him that was appealing. Despite his groomed presentation, his chiseled face was shadowed with an attractive scruff of hair. His beautiful smile burned into me, melting me from the inside...

I was starting to feel like my opposition was futile. Was my resistance worth the weariness that was seeping into my body? I couldn’t deny that I coveted him. I recognized my body’s demand for...

Your unmatched spirit is an emerging expression of the fingerprint of life.

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.