Quotes from Peter Buffett

I do think men fear female intuition.

Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.

We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

It's very powerful if you can home in on, and really trust, intuition and its strength. Most men have shunned that in so many ways that they end up squaring off the circle of life.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.

Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

Women have a connection to life force and nurturing. They have a connection that men don't have. It doesn't mean one's better or more important, it's just a difference.

Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.

We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

It is an act of love to say, "I believe in you as my child, and you don't need my help."