Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.

All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

This is a world of process, not a world of things.

We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

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