Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.