If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.