In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.
Margaret J. WheatleyWe would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
Margaret J. WheatleyDestroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
Margaret J. WheatleyWithout reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Margaret J. WheatleyThe search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.
Margaret J. WheatleyLife 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.
Margaret J. Wheatley