The Ocean: “I take such pleasure when you dip, dive, swim into me.”
This morning after a sweetly foggy dip in gentle glitter waves, I thanked The Ocean for having me. For the first time in my life, I noticed when it returned my gratitude. The Ocean laughed at me forgivingly for having thought I was the only one of us taking pleasure from our relationship.
I believe in The Ocean.
I believe in all of our Creativity.
Later, I finally made it to the end of Donella Meadows’ deeply insightful guide to systemic change:
“There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that NO paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension. It is to “get” at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny."
"It is to let go into Not Knowing.”
“People who cling to paradigms (which means just about all of us) take one look at the spacious possibility that everything they think is guaranteed to be nonsense and pedal rapidly in the opposite direction. Surely there is no power, no control, no understanding, not even a reason for being, much less acting, in the notion or experience that there is no certainty in any worldview. But, in fact, everyone who has managed to entertain that idea, for a moment or for a lifetime, has found it to be the basis for radical empowerment. If no paradigm is right, you can choose whatever one will help to achieve your purpose. If you have no idea where to get a purpose, you can listen to the universe (or put in the name of your favorite [whatever-you-believe-in] here) and do his, her, its will, which is probably a lot better informed than your will.”
“It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.”
Donella ‘Dana’ Meadows,
