Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
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Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
WHAT UNCERTAINTY DOES TO US
Jonathan Fields • Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
while it is essential to cultivate safety, certainty is actually something that should be actively avoided. Certainty is actually a rather rigid state in which creativity and agency cannot exist. ‘If we can become less certain, we are more likely to become receptive to other possibilities, other meanings,’ Mason writes.104 The key is to cultivate s
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
We’re waking up to the reality that uncertainty is not a war to be fought or a disease to be eradicated but an inherent quality of a complex world. We need to cultivate our collective capacity to sit with uncertainty and complexity.
Emerge • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown
trust is what gives the security and the safety
A. H. Almaas • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man
Tighten the vice so people feel snug, not strangled. Find ways, either through context, belief systems or vision to tether all of the chaos down to something that makes sense of the world, that creates tension against the looseness.