A Long Life with an Old Father
Everything hangs together; Act beautifully; Anything can happen; Reality is all possibilities; Live and let live; The front of the deep ecology movement is very long and deep; From the mountains we learn modesty, their size makes us feel small and humble, and so we participate in their greatness; Seek truth but do not claim it; We all act as if we have a total view; Seek a total view but always be open to new views and perspectives; Seek the centre of a conflict and treat opponents with the utmost respect; Be nonviolent in language, judgment and action; Seek whole and complete communication; Be open to making yourselves more precise and clear; Emphasize positive active feelings; Negative passive emotions decrease us and make us smaller; Question yourself deeply; None of us mean what we say with great precision; Realize yourself and help others to realize themselves; The more diversity the better; High quality of life does not depend on high material consumption; Find joy in simple things; Complexity not complication; Simple in means, rich in ends; No value-free inquiry; Inquire into your values, feelings, and judgments; All things are open to inquiry; Not positivist reduction, but whole unified experience; Our spontaneous experience is far richer than any abstractions about it; Every event has many descriptions and aspects; The quality of our experience depends on our choice of norms; Trust, don’t doubt, trust and inquire; Open inquiry is not a specialization, it is open to anyone and cuts across all disciplines; We seriously underestimate ourselves; Philosophy begins and ends in wonder.