Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller's Self-Disciplines

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'A remarkable facet of this document is that he wrote it very early in his life, long before he became well-known.'
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I decided that Nature might support a man who was doing what Nature wanted to be done and concluded that I would be informed by Nature if I proceeded in the following manner:
1. Use myself as an experiment to see what, if anything, a healthy, young male human of average size,
experience, and capability with an economically dependent wife and new born child, starting without

You are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all of your experience to the highest advantage of others

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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever a mystery to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage of others. - R. Buckminster Fuller
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