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George Leonard Biography

George Burr Leonard (1923 – January 6, 2010) was an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential. He was President Emeritus of the Esalen Institute, past-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, President of ITP International, and a former editor of Look Magazine. He was a former United States Army Air Corps pilot, and held a fifth degree black belt in aikido.

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At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

Against, Motion, Patterned, Play, Rhythm, Roots

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

Gold, Know, Path, Realize, Reward, Rewards

Education is. . . doing anything that changes you.

Changes, Education

Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

Dream, Realities, Reality, Simply, Views

Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.

Keys, Make, Material, Powerful, Real, Say

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

Diligently, Moving, Practice, Sake, Simply, Simply You

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

Boredom, Essence, Novelty, Obsessive, Search

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

Effort, Found, Living, Real, Sweet

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

Art, Feet, Foot, Mastery, Setting

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

Human, Humanity, Inspirational, Planet, Powerful, Ultimately

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.

Brother, Children, Know, Learning, Men, Time

To learn is to change.

Change, Learn, Learning

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

Account, Age, Creativity, Inefficiency, School

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

Continually, Long, Novelty, Order, Restructuring, Scarcity

To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

Endure, Enduring, Essential, Essentials, Life, Plateau

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

Complex, Different, Humanity, Numbers, Organisms, Simplest

Practice is the path of mastery.

Mastery, Path, Practice

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

Courage, Failure, Journey, Mastery, Risk

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Deep, Educator, Generations, Require, Way

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Adversity, Game, Life, Order, Theory

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