Barbara Marx Hubbard famous quotes

Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Giving Up #Mean #Doe

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Moving #Choices #Evolution

Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Struggle #Evolution #Evolve

Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Design #Growth #Phases

So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which then makes you want to reach out and touch others in a way that expresses self and really evolves our communities and our world. Certainly, we can't do that unless we activate ourselves first. That's why, for me, emergence is the shift from ego to essence. That is so important.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Self #Essence #Our World

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Horse #Humanity #Earth

There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Peace #Heart #Ignorance

Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Expression #Forever #Evolution

Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Depression #Wise #Jealous

We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Responsibility #Creativity #Self

In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#God #Spiritual #Years

I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is the time to establish our extraterrestrial base in freedom; later it may be under the coercion of necessity.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Believe #Space #Limited Resources

This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Cancer #Cutting #Cells

If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Motivation #Hard Work #Sacrifice

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Reality #Direct

We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Waiting #Body #Lasts

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Society #Movement #Awakening

Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#War #Creativity #Media

Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Past #Views #Ideas

In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Real #Future #Past

By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Expression #Design #Understanding

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#People #Soul #Growing

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Humanity #Growing #Evolution

The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Body #Social #Fourth

The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Evil #Unity #Overcoming

Catastrophe and creation are twins.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Creativity #Twins #Chaos

If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Order #Innovation #Environmental

We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Freedom #Order #Vision

I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Oneness #Self #Realization

It doesn't matter where anybody lives, we're all here.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Matter

Let's assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition?
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Vision #Transition #Attention

Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Moving #Ideas #Important

Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Team #Humanity #World

When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Feelings #Desire #Transformation