67 Quotes by Gregg Braden

The pilot of any plane will agree that when an aircraft is flying with the currents of the atmosphere, the time to get from one place to another can be much shorter. However, when the plane is flying against the flow, it endures a rough ride, and wind resistance can add hours to the flight.

Ancient spiritual traditions remind us that in each moment of the day, we make the choices that either affirm or deny our lives. Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives; to breathe deep and life-affirming breaths or shallow, life-denying ones; and to think and speak about other people in a manner that is honoring or dishonoring.

The opportunity to be imprisoned or free is ours, and we’re the only ones who can make the choice.

Man did not weave the web of life – he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”1.

Because it’s impossible to sustain enough energy to keep all of them going forever, eventually they collapse into a single state – the most stable one, which we see as our “reality.

Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move. – Rumi.

That possibility suggests that we are part of a much greater system of many realities, within realities, within other realities. In this system, our world could be considered a shadow or a projection of events that are happening in a deeper, underlying reality. What we see as our universe is really us – our individual and collective minds – transforming the possibilities of the deeper realms into physical reality.

Through the Divine Matrix, we participate in the constant change that gives meaning to life. The question now is less about whether or not we’re passive observers and more about how we can intentionally create.

In a participatory universe of our making, why should we expect it to be difficult to have the power to create?