Some insights to consider in relation with the Occupy movement (heavy quote unload)...

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...including what it seems to truly be trying to accomplish, and why it may not look that familiar:

"This revolution has to begin, not with theory and ideation, which eventually prove worthless, but with a radical transformation in the mind itself." - J. Krishnamurti

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Max Planck

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude." - William James

"If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness, and a self-centered spirit, we also maintain outdated goals and behaviors. We need to empower the evolution of consciousness." - Ervin Laszlo

"The realization that nature is ordered organically rather than politically, that it is a field of relationships rather than a collection of things, requires an appropriate mode of human awareness. Fully expanded, consciousnesses feels an identity with the whole world, but contracted it is much more inescapably attached to a single minute and perishable organism. Our difficulty is that human consciousness has not adjusted itself to a relational and integrated view of nature." - Alan Watts

"A radical inner transformation and rise to new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm." - Stanislov Grof

"A paradigm shift implies a change in the way we think about life that results in a change of behavior." - Penny Peirce

"In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"We are not bringing about a vital change, uprooting the old ways of thought, freeing the mind from traditions and habits.
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We want to do patchwork reform, which only leads to problems of still further reform. We do not want to strip away all our false values and begin anew. But the building is crumbling, the walls are giving away, and fire is destroying it. We must leave the building and start on new ground, with different foundations, different values." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies. The youth of Earth are moving intuitively toward an utterly classless, raceless, omnicooperative, omniworld humanity. Children freed of the ignorantly founded educational traditions and exposed only to their spontaneously summoned, computer-stored and -distributed outflow of reliable-opinion-purged, experimentally verified data, shall indeed lead society to its happy egress from all misinformedly conceived, fearfully and legally imposed, and physically enforced customs of yesterday. They can lead all humanity into omnisuccessful survival as well as entrance into an utterly new era of human experience in an as-yet and ever-will-be fundamentally mysterious Universe." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up exactly where we are headed." - Old Chinese proverb

"All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Nothing short of everything will really do." - Aldous Huxley

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1. "World unrest is the result of a Grand Idea being born...

...the terror those in power feel is a birth pang. Ideas can be very painful to the power brokers. A new idea is the result of the dethroning of a reigning God." - Christopher Hyatt

"Every slightest effort at opening up new areas of thought, every attempt to perceive new aspects of truth, or just a little truth, is of inestimable value in preparing the way for the light we cannot see." - James Douglass

"You are part of a society, and you are struggling to adjust yourself to it. But that society is the outcome of acquisitiveness. It is the outcome of envy, fear, greed, possessive pursuits, with occasion flashes of love. Surely, you have to create a new society.
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But, we do not think in terms of total transformation, we think only in terms of superficial change. And, if you look into it, you will find that superficial change is no change at all." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Those who criticize this or that detail of a system are more likely to be heard than those who challenge its premises." - William Blake

"Things cannot be forced from the top. The international relinquishing of sovereignty would have to spring from the people - it would have to be so strong that the elected delegates would be turned out of office if they failed to do it. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." - James Douglass