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