LIMITS & NECESSITY
Once natural limits are clearly seen, there
is unlimited potential.
If limits are not clearly seen, then failure
and collapse are not only possible; they are
both necessary and inevitable.
PRIMARY PROBLEMS
We are only truly together with others
insofar as we are challenged by the same
set of primary problems.
CERTAINTY
Around the next bend of a river, there’s
always the ever-present possibility of disaster.
The only certainty you have is the far greater
misfortune of quitting before you find out.
NIGHT FIRE & DIALOGUE
Just as going on a trek requires that you step
out of your front door before you lock it shut,
dialogue requires a kind of radical non-attachment
to ideas. This is a kind of willingness to, without
hesitation, empty one’s rucksack full of cultural
assumptions into the evening fire. Everything goes.
There must be no holding back. A fire thus fed will
generate more than enough light to see the
circle of shared smiles as it comes alive with
the possibility of shared sudden insight.
A JUDAS-GOAT PRESIDENT?
We shape the world and the world shapes us.
In the slaughter houses of old, herds of sheep
were sometimes led to their fate unwittingly by
following a solitary goat with a bell. The sheep will
follow the goat to their end without complaint,
without resistance.
Looked at from a distance, we like to puff
out with self-pride, thinking to ourselves,
“How could they be so stupid?”
FUTURE FOOTPRINT
The Earth provides for more than enough
for all our wants and needs, but not for all
our wars and waste.
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