Human by Design Quotes

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― Gregg Braden, The Science of Self-Empowerment: Awakening the New Human Story

“When we experience true compassion in our lives, our sense of separation between ourselves and others, all life, and the world, as well as within ourselves, disappears. Albert Einstein recognized the power of compassion in our lives, as well as the potential it holds to alleviate suffering. In his words, “Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”10 The fourteenth Dalai Lama carried this understanding from personal healing to global survival, stating, “I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.”11 The recognition of compassion’s role in our lives opens the door to the depths of our greatest self-mastery and the extraordinary experiences that make us human.”
― Gregg Braden, The Science of Self-Empowerment: Awakening the New Human Story

“In compassion, we become involved. We actually do something in an attempt to alleviate the suffering of one or more others. And while we hope our actions will ultimately contribute in some way to alleviating the suffering of others, the goal of compassion is less about the outcome itself and more about us and how we are changed in the presence of a compassionate choice. Once our lives reflect the compassion that we choose, it’s then that the compassion we’ve become can be reflected in everything we do.”
― Gregg Braden, The Science of Self-Empowerment: Awakening the New Human Story

“The thinking of the past has been binary when it comes to the question of our origins. If evolution is not our story, the go-to alternative has automatically been assumed to be the story told by creationists of a divine beginning similar to the biblical account. With this kind of thinking, all the “baggage” of religious doctrine from the creationism side of the issue, and all the “baggage” of the science zealots who are clinging to fundamentalist evolutionary theory, has made it nearly impossible to explore a third possibility. Nevertheless, DNA studies are telling us that a third possibility exists. The scientific fact of the mutation that made our FOXP2 gene and complex speech possible, and the DNA fusion that created human chromosome 2 and enabled the advanced brain functions associated with it, as well as the evidence that suggests these mutations cannot be attributed to evolution alone, all invite us to consider something beyond creationism and evolution when it comes to our species’ origin. For the purposes of this discussion, and to honor the fact that mutations did occur, while acknowledging that something more than evolution contributed to the mutations, let’s call our third possibility directed mutation. The name says it all. Some force that is not presently accounted for in the scientific story is responsible for the precision, timing, and refining of the mutations that makes us who we are. That unknown force directed the mutations that science has now proven to exist.”
― Gregg Braden, Human by Design: From Evolution by Chance to Transformation by Choice

“nearly impossible to explore a third possibility. Nevertheless, DNA studies are telling us that a third possibility exists. The scientific fact of the mutation that made our FOXP2 gene and complex speech possible, and the DNA fusion that created human chromosome 2 and enabled the advanced brain functions associated with it, as well as the evidence that suggests these mutations cannot be attributed to evolution alone, all invite us to consider something beyond creationism and evolution when it comes to our species’ origin. For the purposes of this discussion, and to honor the fact that mutations did occur, while acknowledging that something more than evolution contributed to the mutations, let’s call our third possibility directed mutation. The name says it all. Some force that is not presently accounted for in the scientific story is responsible for the precision, timing, and refining of the mutations that makes us who we are. That unknown force directed the mutations that science has now proven to exist.”
― Gregg Braden, Human by Design: From Evolution by Chance to Transformation by Choice

“way we answer the simple, timeless question Who are we? On a more”
― Gregg Braden, Human by Design: From Evolution by Chance to Transformation by Choice