‘Values are the nervous system of a brilliant life.  They connect everything to everything.  Put simply, values are right up there with oxygen’*

There are many interfaces before the one we share with others.

“The movement that started complexity looks in the other direction.  It’s asking: How do things assemble themselves?  How do patterns emerge from these interacting elements?”**

You and me, we’re  a tiny part of the universe, yet the universe exists in us – we’re made of the same stuff as everything else in the cosmos – just held together in different patterns which make us organic life forms rather than part of an asteroid belt around Saturn.

How do we participate in assembling our lives?

Peter Senge points to a trail of assembly – many interfaces.  Our actions are the result of our beliefs, which have emerged from conclusions we have drawn, from assumptions we have made to meaning extracted from selected data from observable information and experiences.^

Quite a journey.  At each interface, the possibility of something bigger or smaller, hopeful or hopeless, beautiful or ugly.

(*From Michael Heppell’s How To Be Brilliant.)
(**Brian Arthur, quoted in Joseph Jaworski’s Source.)
(^From Peter Senge’s The Necessary Revolution.)