In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.