If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

LIVING SYSTEMS

1.    But life never comes to a closure; life is process, even mystery. Life is known only to those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure. ~Rachel Naomi Remen

2.    Every being, every organization, is an identity in motion, creating itself in the world and creating its world simultaneously. ~Margaret Wheatley

3.    Life accepts only partners, not bosses. Systems do not accept direction, only provocation. ~Margaret Wheatley

4.    The goal of science is to build better mousetraps; the goal of nature is to build better mice. ~Unknown

5.    We can never direct a living system. We can only disturb it. ~Margaret Wheatley

6.    We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ~Herman Melville