Quotes About Emergence

Everything started as nothing.

Great things truly have small beginnings.

You go through it like a dark room, you sweat, you fear, the fear passes, you come out of it and utter nothing but meaningless words about what you saw or felt.

When I forget my own inner multiplicity and my own long and continuing journey toward selfhood, my expectations of students become excessive and unreal. If I can remember the inner pluralism of my own soul and the slow pace of my own self-emergence, I will be better able to serve the pluralism among my students at the pace of their young lives.

How, exactly, do we resolve dilemmas that tempt us to choose either this or that and instead hold the tension long enough to let a "third thing" emerge?

the movements that transform us, our relations, and our world emerge from the lives of people who decide to care for their authentic selfhood.

Today's collaborative efforts often are negotiations rather than new creations born out of what has most heart and most meaning. To practice courageous collaboration is to commit ourselves to something that is worthy of our whole selves. And, we invite others to show up in the same way. From that new place different possibilities emerge.

In any case, when we pray for each other in this way, it is not a form of requesting divine interventions. It is a way of enabling the connecting Spirit to emerge rather than invade; it's activating the Spirit that is already there, rather than asking it to intervene from out there.

And if the universe is tuned so that consciousness can emerge and evolve, this implies that intelligent life has probably emerged on countless billions of other planets - so humans would have no special status in the design.

movement from inside, the sound of

Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. The latter course, by preserving a state of alienation, hinders the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in a total reality. And without this critical intervention, it is always difficult to achieve the unity of the oppressed as a class.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs. In this way, they can go beyond the level of real consciousness to that of potential consciousness much more rapidly.

A karmic relationship is automatic and hypnotic at first, then often feels like you're in a tunnel; you can't get out until you emerge at the other end. You chose it, want to do it, but it's not that much fun. When it's over, you shake yourself and say, "What just happened to me?

Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.

When inward tenderness Finds the secret hurt, Pain itself will crack the rock And, Ah! Let the soul emerge. — Rumi

Nobel laureate Christian de Duve stated that once the ingredients were in place with the right amount of energy present in the early Earth stove, life would have emerged from nonlife very quickly. Perhaps in minutes.

quantum reality, and finding itself emerging in a continuum it had no prior conception of: an energistic vacuum

In attachment theory, the regulation of affects serves to foster the emergence of self-regulation from coregulation. Or, put into the alternative language that Sroufe uses, this means that the regulatory system of the infant is transformed from being "dyadic" to being "individual.

provides empirical support for the notion that an infant's sense of self emerges from the affective quality of relationship with the primary caregiver.

Siegel, who codirects UCLA's Mindsight Institute and is author of the scientifically acclaimed books "The Developing Mind: and "The Mindful Brain," broke down the essential sequence of surprise as expectation + violation of expectation. He quoted Jerome Bruner, one of the fathers of cognitive psychology, who said "narrative emerges from violations to expectations.

Thus the emergence in February 1879 of Wilhelm Marr and the new word "antisemitism" came as the culmination of a decade of rising reaction against emancipation.

dialectical origins. This is not a book driven by a thesis that the author wants to prove but rather a work that emerged out of the give-and-take of many years of teaching and public speaking,

A husk of herself that had been a barrier I hadn't even been aware of. And in the sloughing off, she opened and flowered. Corny, huh? Not really. Magical. I mean to watch a person let go of something and flower. I wouldn't know what it is she let go of.