Vision | Futuring | Imagination đź”®
What makes deductive sense from this moment is unlikely to continue to make sense. Being locked to a goal obstructs the ability to perceive other responses.
Nora Bateson • Combining
Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous.
, such as culturally engendered habits or physical impulses. Steiner refers to ordinary thinking as dead; he could have used Plato’s allegory, according to which ordinary thinking is cave-like.
Robert McDermott • The New Essential Steiner
Besides Intellect, the is a world of Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition
Donella Meadows:
“Living successfully in a world of complex systems means expanding not only time horizons and thought horizons; above all it means expanding the horizons of caring. There are moral reasons for doing that, of course. And if moral arguments are not sufficient, systems thinking provides the practical reasons to back up the moral ones.”
“Living successfully in a world of complex systems means expanding not only time horizons and thought horizons; above all it means expanding the horizons of caring. There are moral reasons for doing that, of course. And if moral arguments are not sufficient, systems thinking provides the practical reasons to back up the moral ones.”
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Fishbowl thinking
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Seventh Generation Principle is an Indigenuous concept. It means that the current generation should live and work for the benefit as well for the seventh generation to come in the future. It is based on an ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world seven generations into the future. https://theseventhgeneration.org/blog-the-seventh-generation-principle/
The first recorded concepts of the Seventh Generation Principle date back to the writing of The Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy, although the actual date is undetermined, the range of conjectures place its writing anywhere from 1142 to 1500 AD. The Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy formed the political, ceremonial, and social fabric of the Five Nation Confederacy (later Six). (https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle)
Another interpretation that stresses stewardship owed to generations past and future sometimes arises in popular culture and discourse. Rather than pointing to seven generations counted from one's own and looking toward the future, there is an awareness of a legacy to honor or a debt to bear in mind to those three generations before one's own, as well as an awareness of one's own legacy bequeathed to the three generations to follow one's own. By reckoning 25 years per generation, the span of lifetimes stretches 75 years before one's birth and 75 years beyond one's death.
(Wikipedia)