Our challenge today is not overcoming our shortcomings or atoning for our sins. Our challenge is fully acknowledging, embracing, and harnessing our incredible gifts.
Tag: evolution
The bright side of outrage
The change we want and need is happening – right now. We prove it to ourselves every time we find ourselves and others in the grips of outrage.
Our systems aren’t broken
We can’t fix our systems. We have to evolve into new ones.
Seeing what is
The world is a brilliant, wondrous place, so long as we judge it for what it is.
In defense of tribalism
Tribalism is not a failed system. It’s just a limited system, one that is healthy and helpful to an extent and dangerous when taken to the extreme.
“It’s just human nature to _______” is B.S.
It’s up to us to define what it means to be human and to demonstrate that in action.
Social justice warriors & political correctness are tearing us apart
There have always been two types of people: 1) change agents who want to drive progress and 2) preservers who want to keep our many great accomplishments intact.
Living earth theory, in five minutes
At its most fundamental level, Living Earth asks us to see our planet not as a big rock on which plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and other life have sprung up. Rather, Living Earth asks us to view the entire planet – and everything on it – as one big, living organism.
Should we really be so outraged at racism and sexism?
We are outraged at racism and sexism. But can we reframe the story to reveal possibility when before we saw hopelessness and despair?
Why Trump gives me hope
Growing support for Trump’s ideas is not that they are becoming more popular. It is because those who hold them most dearly now feel more threatened – and therefore are getting louder – than ever.