If the success or failure of this planet, and of…

If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do?

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The effective decisions can only be made by the independently thinking and adequately informed human individuals and their telepathically intercommunicated wisdom–the wisdom of the majority of all such human individuals–qualifying for continuance in Universe as local cosmic problem-solvers–in love with the truth and in individually spontaneous self-commitment to absolute faith in the wisdom, integrity, and love of God, who seems to wish Earthian humans to survive. - View Quote Details on The effective decisions can only be made by the independently…
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances. - View Quote Details on Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds…
I never try to tell anybody else what to do, number one. And number two, I think that’s what the individual is all about. Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule that I can give out, any command. We’re all on the frontier, we’re all in a great mystery — incredibly mysterious. Each one possesses exactly what each one is working out, and what each one works out relates to their particular set of circumstances of any one day, or any one place around the world. - View Quote Details on I never try to tell anybody else what to do,…
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. I don’t think of my feet as a right foot and a wrong foot…. I am a student of the effectiveness of the technological evolution in its all unexpected alterations of the preoccupations of humanity and in its all unexpected alterings of human behaviors and prospects. - View Quote Details on I do not look upon human beings as good or…
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation. - View Quote Details on Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
It seems to demonstrate that periods of industrial activity in technical syntheses of principles, data, free energy and energy as “matter,” find highest employment by the fear-amassed credits of warfare. Therefore the assumption approaches fact that war promotes the major technical advances of civilization… What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human’s prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science. (1947) - View Quote Details on It seems to demonstrate that periods of industrial activity in…
Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two. - View Quote Details on Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two.
I think it’s absolutely touch-and-go whether we’re going to make it. But the point is, for me to tell you that you have an option is not to be optimistic… Time and again, of course I am running into millions who don’t know we have the option, because it’s invisible, and I feel I have tremendous responsibility. So when people ask me to come and talk to them, I do my best to let them know they do have the option. Of course they’re pessimistic, not knowing that. - View Quote Details on I think it’s absolutely touch-and-go whether we’re going to make…
on first priority / in design consideration / is the full realization / of individual potential / in order to reach the second derivative– / full realization for all individuals - View Quote Details on on first priority / in design consideration / is the…
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events. - View Quote Details on The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.