Emma
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Emma
Transformation can be defined as significant changes in form, structure, or meaning-making. It can also be described as a much deeper process, including “the unleashing of human potential to commit, care, and affect change for a better life.”16
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
John Irving
Key idea: none of the parts have can fulfill the purpose the system.
Example 3: A planet is a system containing many systems the purpose of which is to maintain life.
Example 3: A planet is a system containing many systems the purpose of which is to maintain life.
The Fish Discipline | Teaching kids Systems thinking | What is a system — Ahmad Fahmy
Enumerating the gifts you've received creates a sense of abundance, the knowing that you already have what you need.
Recognizing ‘enoughness’ is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
We have suffered an “extinction of experience”, a phrase coined over 20 years ago by naturalist Robert Pyle
Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
We see the world as we are
—Anaiis Nin
Intentional communities of mutual self reliance and reciprocity are the wave of the future, and their currency is sharing.
The move towards a local food economy is not just about freshness and carbon footprints and soil organic matter.
It's about all those things, but it's also about the deep human desire for connection, for honour, to be in recipr
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