We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.
You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... Richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.