![]() It’s very exciting when it happens.”Īlphabet of Natural Objects, by Aldo Leopold They will have to admit ignorance and be willing to be taught, by each other and by the system. Interdisciplinary communication works only if there is a real problem to be solved, and if the representatives from the various disciplines are more committed to solving the problem than to being academically correct. ![]() “Seeing systems whole requires more than being “interdisciplinary,” if that word means, as it usually does, putting together people from different disciplines and letting them talk past each other. They won’t make it easy for you.”īeing Interdisciplinary, by Donella Meadows You will have to penetrate their jargons, integrate what they tell you, recognize what they can honestly see through their particular lenses, and discard the distortions that come from the narrowness and incompleteness of their lenses. To understand that system, you will have to be able to learn from-while not being limited by-economists and chemists and psychologists and theologians. It will be sure to lead across traditional disciplinary lines. So we have to be intentional about choosing kindness and generosity.” “We tend to be our worst selves when we’re afraid. “We are responsible for dreaming the future into being.” “The effort will take you to places you didn’t anticipate, but the results are almost always better than what you thought was possible at the outset.” “… I have found that something slightly magical happens when you set goals that feel a bit crazy,” Tim Cook said. Something Magical Happens, Tim Cook from Apple “Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve sustainability, the quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful celebration of life.” Let ours be a time, from the Earth Charter It is the root of all the other virtues.” “Courage is the first sign of the Spirit. If we succeed, it will be because of youth, truth, and love.” We need not operate competitively any longer. “We have come to an extraordinary moment when it doesn’t have to be you or me. That kind of compassion – unbiased, unlimited – needs training, awareness.”Įxtraordinary Moment, by Buckminster Fuller “You can develop a genuine sense of concern of well-being of others, including your enemy. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We can’t control systems or figure them out. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone. … We can’t impose our will upon a system. “The future can’t be predicted, but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being. “Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.”īrought Lovingly into Being, by Donella Meadows “Start with the vision, be open to any path by which the vision will be realized, be patient and persistent, be true to the vision, and things will work out.” ![]() Start with the Vision, by Donella Meadows It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves and each other.” “The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world - we’ve actually been on the way for quite a while. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” “In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. Learners Inherit the Future, by Eric Hoffer “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever-greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.” “I call the transformed world toward which we can move “sustainable,” by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. The Transformed World, by Donella Meadows
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