We understand that inner work and outer work reflect one another--how we work on ourselves, and transform ourselves, strengthening our capacities to observe, reflect, and engage, is what will ultimately transform our work. 

In 2003, Nicanor Perlas spoke to this reality in his acceptance of the Right Livelhood Award: 

"I am introducing the discourse of "spirit" back in social activism because the problems we face, dear friends, cannot be solved by the same kind of mind and heart that created these problems in the first place. We are in fact faced with very deep spiritual social problems, which require spiritual responses from us. Ordinary, secular, materialistic answers will not do. The plea for human rights, for example, makes no sense if we truly believe that humans are simply complex biochemical machines that we can alter, patent, and clone....

For behind every act of social resistance and creativity is a spiritual act. Spiritual revolution must have happened first within us before we can create the new world we all long for. Failing this act of spiritual revolution, we will face the future powerless to redeem and transform the mechanical, totalitarian world we have created out of our societies, our selves, and Nature."

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