Quotes About Integration

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

On one occasion a medical colleague chastised Dr. Nelson for failing to separate his professional knowledge from his religious convictions. "That startled me," he admitted, "because I did not feel that truth should be fractionalized. Truth is indivisible" (Hafen, Disciple's Life, 165).

Fear has played a central strategic role in the Republican Party since at least World War II. It was Communism in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. It was crime in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. It was the fear of terrorism in the George W. Bush years. It was integration and immigration—people we do not know, religion we do not understand, and cultures we find alien—through much of our history.

This is the experience of living full time on the Net, newly free in some ways, newly yoked in others. We are all cyborgs now.

Mobile technology is here to stay, along with all the wonders it brings. Yet it is time for us to consider how it may get in the way of other things we hold dear—and how once we recognize this, we can take action: We can both redesign technology and change how we bring it into our lives. A

Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.

Use concrete events to think about large ideas. Use large ideas to think about concrete events.

Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.

Don't leave music in the lone territory of the music teacher; make it a part of your instruction. In the words of Bob Marley, "Music gonna teach dem a lesson.

This is expansion: to stand as One with all.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

He then said something even more mind-boggling. "As a general principle, any positive state that you experience within the context of silent sitting practice, you must try to attain in the midst of ordinary life.

I often say that my life's passion lies in exploring what may arise from the cross-fertilization of the best of the East with the best of the West. Meditation is the systematic exploration of nature from the inside, and the East has done better than anyone else. Science is systematic exploration of nature from the outside. It's what the West did best—at least between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.