Once we have embraced complexity, we can see it is a rich tapestry. This non-threatening way of looking at change and its components and predicates is in keeping with spiritual ideals. ... Read More about Appreciating the Tapestry of Life
Week 49: Change
Dissenting – Challenging Conventions
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at ... Read More about Dissenting – Challenging Conventions
Appreciating and Embracing Complexity
The simple mind does not like change, which it may resist to the point of self-annihilation. The ability to acknowledge, appreciate and embrace the complexity of systems has always been a valuable ... Read More about Appreciating and Embracing Complexity
Being an Agent for Revolution
Being Aware of Things As They Are
The modern, and to my mind true, theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training of the reasoning powers not because it is abstract, but ... Read More about Being Aware of Things As They Are
Discontent
Jean Dubuffet, Poiro Zanzibare (1962) Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems ... Read More about Discontent
Being an Agent for Change
Change appears on this calendar only once every few years. This illustrates the point that major change - as opposed to minor change, which occurs constantly - should occur infrequently. People need ... Read More about Being an Agent for Change