The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.
At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields. . . leading towards a "system of systems. ". . . I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse. . . . (vi). . . the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness.
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're done especially for the insiders, for the disciples. Usually healings and exorcisms are done for people along the road, as it were. Jesus doesn't come on the water to save the fishing fleet from Capernaum, he comes on the water to save the disciples. It's a parable, dummy, it's a parable, don't you get it? If the leadership of the church takes off in a boat without Jesus, it will sink, it will get nowhere.
I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.
Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.
We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world. . . . We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.