Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

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

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.