Barbara Marx Hubbard Quotes

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Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Once again a new world view is arising... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.

Barbara Marx Hubbard
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.

Barbara Marx Hubbard