A Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Margaret Renkl
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In made up stories, you get a through line, straight or curved or squiggly. It connects foreshadowing to ending. To paraphrase Anton Chekov efficient storytelling requires that if you put a gun on stage in Act One of a play, it must go off in Act Two. But real life…
A Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Mark Nepo
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When people’s dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart. Mencius (372 BC-289 BC)…
A Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Cathy Wild
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Make good by standing place. Cathy Wild’s father “When I was a child my father said to me, “Make good by standing place.” This idea came from Archimedes who was a Greek mathematician and a leading scientist in the classical age. He said, “Give me…
A Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Judith Orloff, M.D.
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Our innate capacity for empathy is the source of the most precious of all human qualities. His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Orloff says, “In the depth and intricacies of being human the complexity of empathy is at the center. It’s the alpha; it’s the beginning; it inspires me…
A Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Larry Brilliant, M.D.
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Larry Brilliant, M.D. reminds us of something that Mahatma Gandhi said during the fight for freedom for India. He had many complicated decisions to make and many people would come to him and ask, “Mahatma, how do I know what the right thing to do? Gandhi would say, “Everybody wants…
Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Will Keepin, Ph.D.
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“We need a forum where women and men of all sexual orientations can come together and speak their truth around the issues of gender and sexuality and intimacy. We need to consciously bring in spirit, spirit understood as the transcendent or universal dimension of the consciousness of humanity, which is…
Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Hank Wesselman, Ph.D.
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When we walk on the shamanic path of direct revelation we are to love all that we see with humility, live all that we feel with reverence, and know all that we possess with discipline. This reveals that this is a path with heart, a path that reflects our honor. …
Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Karen Casey, Ph.D.
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American political figure, diplomat, pacifist and activist. She was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. “I love this quote. It grabbed my attention long ago. You must do the thing you…
Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Rupert Spira
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Flow down and down and down in ever widening rings of being. Sufi Mystic, Jelaluddin Rumi, Translation: Coleman Barks “I love this quote because in such economical and beautiful language it really expresses the essence of the direct approach. Instead of our attention flowing outwards or upwards towards an object,…
Favorite Quote From A New Dimensions Guest: Dan Drasin
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When Albert Einstein was teaching at a university, a student came up to him and asked, ‘Is it true that the final exam this year has the same questions as last year?’ Einstein replied, ‘Yes, but the answers have changed.’ Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who was…
