REMAIN CENTERED ON OUR CORE VALUES - David Korten

We must approach this difficult period with a mutual caring and tolerance for diversity that are the essential foundations of the healthy societies we hope to create.

Even as we seek to remain centered in our core values and to build alliances with those who share such values, we must be constantly aware that we are engaged in an act of creation, for which there is no blueprint.

We are all learners in an unfolding process, requiring that we look with a critical eye and an open mind for the kernel of truth in each idea and the spark of goodness in each person.

We are embarking on what may be the most profound change of course in human history, and it requires that we bring to bear the full creative potenial of our species.


David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World

DAWN - A POEM BY THOMAS BERRY

Look up at the sky--

The heavens so blue, the sun so radiant,

The clouds so playful, the soaring raptors,

The meadows in bloom, the woodland creatures,

The rivers singing their way to the sea,

Wolf song on the land, whale song in the sea,

Celebration everywhere, wild, riotous,

Immense as a monsoon lifting an ocean of joy

And spilling it down over the Appalachian landscape,

Drenching us all with a deluge of delight

As we open our arms and rush toward each other,

You and I and all of us,

Moved by that vast compassionate Presence

that brings all things together in intimate celebration,

celebration that's the universe itself.