Peter Buffett Quotes
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Start from the bottom up.
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I've seen women essentially martyr themselves for the good of the future and the good of their children and, again, the good of love. That shouldn't be happening but it shows you the strength and power of it, and the fact that it will take over a woman's sense of her own survival. Men have taken advantage of that for hundreds and probably thousands of years.
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True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.
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I do think men fear female intuition.
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The more history I read, the more everything seems to point to the same thing.
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My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother - so, there's certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.
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Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.
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I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.
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My gut sense is there's something necessary going on and if I'm too fearful or angry, I feel like I'm feeding it.
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I'm generalizing, but women, being so connected to life, tend to have stronger intuition is stronger because they are trained to be on the look-out and protect. Men do that too, but there's a different quality to women.
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We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet
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Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change.
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Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.
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All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.
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We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.
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In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.
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Well, when people ask where I'm from, I usually say the Midwest, because that covers both homes, in a way. Obviously I was born in Omaha, but when people say, "Where do you come from," we'll say Milwaukee. I mean Jennifer was certainly born in Milwaukee, and that's where I spent a big chunk of my adult life, so we usually say we came here from Milwaukee. That's usually how it's referenced is we're from Milwaukee, yeah.
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Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.
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Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.
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Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important.
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It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is.
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Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.
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We have to be in abundance and recognize that we're just a small piece of this big thing that's moving along the biosphere, earth, evolution and consciousness and we'd better humble ourselves and start loving each other.
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It's very powerful if you can home in on, and really trust, intuition and its strength. Most men have shunned that in so many ways that they end up squaring off the circle of life.
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Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.
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Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.
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It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.
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Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not be enough" kind of framework of scarcity. Power with is thinking abundantly as opposed to fearfully. Power with is hopefully where we're going - and where we need to go as a species in order to survive.
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Women have a connection to life force and nurturing. They have a connection that men don't have. It doesn't mean one's better or more important, it's just a difference.
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It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.
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