“Those moments of being able to say, ‘I used to think it was like this, but I am starting to think it might be like this.’ That was a way of saying I learnt something.”

— Nora Bateson, in “An Ecology of Mind”.

“A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.”

— Gregory Bateson.

“What pattern connects the crab to the lobster, and the orchid to the primrose, and all the four of them to me? And me to you?”

— Gregory Bateson.

“No Problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

— Albert Einstein.

“Like logic, law, and technology, the control implicit in language is a facade. We carefully label and categorize the whole world, hoping thereby to impose order upon it, to domesticate the wild, but we delude ourselves to think that the wild respects our boundaries any more than a squirrel respects a ‘no trespassing’ sign. To this day, it is the voice that communicates more than the speech.”

— Charles Eisenstein, Ascent of Humanity.