Metaphors we live by 🪞

as Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee shares in Emergence Magazine, “We cannot change the world through a mental construct. We cannot change the world through words alone”

" Square peg in a round hole " is an idiomatic expression which describes the unusual individualist who could not fit into a niche of their society.

God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being.

you’re not writing by yourself. There is a multiplicity of beings who are co-authoring your work.

Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.

By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end. Ri... See more

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”

doesn’t make any sense.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don’t go b... See more

“Slow down and tune into our seismographs.” The invitation is to practice “sensing to the depths” by finding one’s own inner still point, dropping through the layers of white noise, or using a finely-tuned instrument to hear the subtle signals.

What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities o... See more

“If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.”