A Fuller View Quotes

“Love is metaphysical gravity.” By Gary Zukav GUEST COMMENTATOR Bucky said, “Love is metaphysical gravity.” I agree. What else could it be? Without gravity you would float like an astronaut in a spacecraft. Up and down would mean nothing to you. Your slightest motion would send you tumbling head over feet or rolling uncontrollably. If you pushed hard against a wall, you would shoot backward fast until you hit another wall. If the lights in the spacecraft went out, you would have no way at all of orienting yourself. Without love the same thing happens. Every experience of anger, jealousy, resentment, and fear sends you spinning out of control. You have no way of knowing up from down except what your anger shows you, and it always shows you that you are right and someone else is wrong, that you are a victim and someone else is a villain. The more you act in anger, jealousy, resentment, or fear, the more painful consequences you create. You careen helplessly, spinning, rolling, hitting walls you can’t avoid and colliding with others. Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance. When you choose to become sensitive and caring instead of frightened and selfish, your anger turns to appreciation, your jealousy to gratitude, and your resentment to caring. You cannot loose your orientation: When your deeds harm others, you are in fear, and when you create harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life, you are in love. The ground beneath you is always solid.”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. The challenge is to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time, with spontaneous cooperation, and without ecological damage or disadvantage of anyone.”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“A good practice is to check in with yourself frequently throughout the day, asking: • Is my mode of being in this moment in support of the “eternally regenerative Universe”—or not? • Are the divine design principles of the Universe clear to me in this moment? • Are the choices I am making and the actions I am engaged with in harmony with and in support of the whole field of complex relationships in which I am embedded in this moment—or not? In this wonderful quote,”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“Regardless of the propaganda espoused by large corporations, governments, religions, and other institutions, we can all follow this simple path in creating the seemingly elusive “world that works for everyone” right here and right now. Only we individuals can think and take action. No corporation will ever generate a single thought—much less invent the next great app, computer program, or ground transportation vehicle. No religion will ever come up with a single inspirational aphorism. And no government will ever shut down a single military facility. These things are all initiated and accomplished by individuals.”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“4.2 “Environment is stronger than will.” Bobbi DePorter GUEST COMMENTATOR These words of Buckminster Fuller have lived with me and grown in me for many years. In clarifying this statement he added … “I would never try to reform man—that’s much too difficult. What I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions. … I must commit myself to reforming the environment and not man, being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“That is our mandate and path as we shift from a period of competition and war to an era of cooperation and peace for all people.”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“May all beings be happy and peaceful. May all beings be free from fear and pain. May all beings be healthy and strong. May all beings live with love and compassion. May all beings fully awaken and be free.”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“My answer to Bucky’s challenge to “Build a new model” came to me in the form of a slightly tongue-in-cheek metaphor: “If you want to create a new culture, throw a better party!” It seemed to me that our current way of being together is rooted in joyless competition and mechanistic separation, which is not our true nature. What’s needed is a more convivial, cooperative, creative, and compassionate way to organize ourselves on planet Earth. The metaphor of a “Better Party” speaks”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“The other very important element in this quote and our ability as individuals to make a difference is a single word that most people gloss over. It’s not divine or design principles or Universe or integrity. The pivotal word that is extremely important at this juncture in human evolution is “qualify.” The question Bucky asked himself and his audiences throughout his “56 Year Experiment” is “are humans a worthwhile to Universe experiment?” In other words, do our actions create results that qualify us for our universal mission?”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“Average people doing what needs to be done with great integrity and imagination. That’s our formula for success during this unique period of evolution.”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All

“a world that works for everyone.”
― L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All