Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking.

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