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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
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?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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Fate Peace Ubuntu
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking