From: Michael Naumer (a man who made a
difference)
October 21, 1942 – May 4, 2001
• Everything changes. Everything happens in
cycles. Everything contributes.
• Everything contains within itself the
seed of its apparent opposite.
• Everything is important, and nothing is
significant.
• There are no accidents.
• Things are not happening to me—they
are happening for me.
• Do I want to be right—or do I want
to be effective?
• Am I available for what I say I want?
• What is my part?
• Expand to include—and have it
contribute.
• There is no meaning in reality. Truth
does not mean anything; it is just what’s
so.
• No good deed goes unpunished.
• The mind is a dangerous neighborhood;
don’t go in there alone.
• Our baggage is the material we need to
transform. We need our stuff—we just want to
become objective about it so we can deal with
it.
• If you are going to be there, be there.
If not, go someplace else.
• Whatever you hold as this shouldn’t
be, you energize its continued existence.
• What you can’t choose, you have to
hold as burden.
• Where you are the most wounded—you
are the most accomplished.
• Where you stumble is your gold.
• When you get your limits—you get
your maturity.
• When you diminish another person you lose
their ability to contribute to you.
• As long as you have to live inside the
tribe, you cannot be a leader.
• As consciousness rises, significance
drops away.
• The universe is not
oppositional—only our minds are.
• It is all, all working.
• It is better to ride the horse in the
direction it is going.
• It is not about me. It may have something
to do with me, but it is not about me—or my
value. Nor is it about you—or your value.
• Do not assign emotional responsibility to
another; they don’t cause it—they only
occasion it.
• Gathering evidence is the way in which we
organize our resistance.
• Get the debt out of relationship.
• Relationship will not fill my gap (the
solution then becomes the problem).
• There is a difference between taking a
stand and being a stand.
• Position creates opposition; when I take
a position, I have to defend it.
• Context determines content.
• Consciousness is that which recognizes
itself.
• Complaint is an abdication of
responsibility.
• Attachment produces dependence,
dependence produces complaint; you can’t get
to satisfaction from complaint.
• Expectation shuts it down.
• Love is the recognition of the equal in
the other.
• Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes
the bear eats you.
• People are miraculous surprises.
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