"The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote gloom and evil. Rather, it's about the inscrutability of the embryonic state; the obscure chaos that reigns before germination."

-- Rob Brezsny

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“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.”

Source : Edwin H. Friedman (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.9, Church Publishing, Inc.
“She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.”
“It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.”
“There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.”
“The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.”
“Freedom has only the meaning with which men endow it. It is not enough to pay lip service to the concept of religious liberty. We must pay heart service to it as well, else it remains an empty phrase instead of a living reality.”
“Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.”
“I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays itâ€™s no good being a cabbage â€“ unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.”

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