Quotes are like photons, discrete packets of energy that circulate at the speed of light. I love to stumble onto them in my reading.  There I am reading along when suddenly I read

 ‘In assembling complexity the bounty of increasing returns is won by multiple tries over time. As various parts reorganize to a new whole, the system escapes into a higher order.” — Ilya Prigogine

Its like I’ve fallen into the white rabbit’s hole and the entire universe changes shape.  I first read these words in the late 90s and to this day, it still speaks to me as fresh and wondrous as the first time I read it.  These 30 words speak from the heart of the universe and can teach me more than some of my university semester-long

The list below was one of the first set of assumptions that Matt and I created together when we first met in 1976.  We have used and evolved it over time. It defined many of the first principles we used in creating our way of working.   It is form these shared beliefes that we proceeded to created our process and method.  While it seems painfully simple today within the midst of a dying, fighting paradigm, and our radical either/or mentality, to me it still holds true.  I've shared this list before along with the URL about "We the people" being the second super power.  Both, along with my recent posting for what is a Tomorrow Maker, I think I have the bare begining of a form for engaging others in the creation of a healthier world.  We can't afford to merely tweak the existing infrastructures and cultures and expect to transform ourselves or others.  While we are building on ten thousand- or more - years of history, ours is a new story, one just being born.  Our history will be reframed from within the anthroposcene era.  We won't throw it away, nor do we let it control how we design, decide, and create....

Matt and I had such high hopes in the late 70's when we began designing a way forward for a new way of working.  But we have been practicing, event after event, and waiting somewhat patiently for Earthlings to wake up and realize what we the people are actually capable of doing for the good of all species on Earth.  We have had fabulous mutual learning experiences with each engagement taking us further into our coming to knowing process. 

It is only now that we are beginning to see signs that there are others, many others working to make a difference.  We are all pretty invisible now but ready to spring forth.  

Enjoy our Creed and find yourself within it.