Paradigms are Made for Shifting
“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels…” ~Albert Einstein, N.Y. Times, 1946
Life is a creative self-organizing process. Every “thing” that exists is actually a dynamic system that’s constantly moving and changing, less a static “thing” than a process in action. Galaxies spinning, continents moving, societies transforming, friendships forming, children growing…
As Albert Einstein (and many others) have tried to communicate to us, all of these beautiful structures in our lives (and the greater Universe) are interconnected and related to one another…
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ~Albert Einstein
Our body’s growth is guided by the DNA of our ancestors, nurtured by the bodies of our mothers, our cellular systems running on energy passed along by glucose molecules that were created in the leaves of plants that captured photons from our nearest star, the sun.In a sense, we are solar beings– our minds and bodies animated by solar energy. Most people don’t usually think this way, we are not aware of all these interconnections and synergistic processes that make up our lives.
This is especially true in “civilized” cultures with languages designed to help us exert control over the world. Our words and concepts have Paradigms are Made for Shifting | Creative by Nature:
