Author: David L. Smith
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The Seeds of the Future…
Movement forward doesn’t depend on everyone changing. When just one person takes on the challenges of becoming more accepting, allowing, and strong, a ripple effect is created. Everyone in that person’s sphere is now touched with the new possibility. Even if the reasons are unclear, anyone who plays by new rules will be noticed by…
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Nature is Self-Organizing
When driven into far-from-equilibrium conditions, systems do not just break down, they generate new structures that pull higher forms of order out of the surrounding chaos. It is as if nature reaches into herself and draws forth structures that reflect the inherent potential of the system for higher orders of self-organization. Duane Elgin, Systems theorist,…
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Molecules in a Cup of Water
There are more molecules of water in one cup of the stuff than there are cups of water in all the world’s oceans. Every cup that passes through a single person and eventually rejoins the world’s water supply, holds enough molecules to mix 1,500 of them into every other cup of water in the world.…
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The Workings of Diversity
Diversity means many different relationships, many different approaches to the same problem. A diverse community is a resilient community, capable of adapting to changing situations. However, diversity is a strategic advantage only if there is a truly interconnected community, sustained by a web of relationships. If the community is fragmented into isolated groups and individuals,…
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The True Peace
What is Life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. The True Peace. The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within…
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The Function of Beauty
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Old Thinking / New Thinking
Old mind thinks: How do we stop these bad things from happening? New mind thinks: How do we make things the way we want them to be? Old mind thinks: If it didn’t work last year, let’s do MORE of it this year. New mind thinks: If it didn’t work last year, let’s do something…
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The Coherence of Living Systems
Living systems are astonishingly coherent. The human body, for example, consists of anywhere from 37.2 trillion to 100 trillion cells, and each cell produces 10,000 bioelectrochemical reactions every second. Every 24-hours, 1,012 cells die and are replaced. Ervin Laszlo, Systems scientistAuthor,The Intelligence of the Cosmos: Why Are We Here? New Answers from the Frontiers of…
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Everything we do is Sacred
Now Is The Time Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred. Now, why not consider A lasting truce between you and the Divine. Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels To be laid aside when you…
Love And Light Greetings 