“She who wants to have right without wrong, order without disorder, does not understand the principles of heaven and earth. She does not know how things hang together.” – Chuang Tzu, fourth century B.C.
I just love Margaret J. Wheatley writings on Leadership and the New Science, how she poetically flows from chaos to order and rediscovering our humanity particularly in the last chapters where she takes us in a wonderful journey through unpredictability, uncertainty and how we ‘participate in the spiral dance of form, formlessness, and new form’.
She continually challenges us into a new mindset and a true paradigm shift when it comes to understand Chaos and order without predicability, ‘to find a new beach’ – chp 8 – that was really awesome!!! (you got to read that). We are taught to manage change and keep it under control every step of the way, every breath we take, we’ve got to be in control. Who says? Why not to work with the forces of change, with black holes , doubt, with not knowing? As she cleverly and elegantly portraits ‘a new way to honour and work with the wholeness of life’.
Throughout our lives we experience this beautiful dance of emotions, a gamut of colours in our soul, burning, shoothing, pushing away or embracing, shining or raining, nevertheless all beautiful like a rainbow! Your true colours – don’t be afraid to let them shine – Love!
“One learns to hope that nature possesses an order that one may aspire to comprehend.” – C. N. Yang
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great song and pictures! ‘Why not to work with the forces of change’ I like this phrase, I guess every challenge can be an opportunity to grow… I guess it’s all a matter of faith, life is unpredictable and uncertain at some levels (maybe most levels…) but faith ‘is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see’, it help us to adapt and change with the changes or to stay steady when changes around us are not positive.