It is perfectly ordinary and normal that much of what we experience makes no sense. Sense is the exception rather than the rule. Indeed, the more sense we make the further away from nature and chaos we go, until we find ourselves isolated, alone and suffocating from an excess of reason, logic and meaning.
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It takes great resolve to enter into the darkness of our own chaos, to give up the familiar path and begin to trust our own experience.
— Marion Woodman
The experience of suffering is no less significant than that of liberation. The experience of confusion is no less necessary than that of clarity. The experience of chaos is not inferior to that of harmony. The experience of separation is no less sacred than that of oneness.
— Shiv Sengupta
We too are living now through such a world, caught again between two ages, confused and conflicted, suffocating and suffering. But we have a powerful instrument for self-understanding, for cutting through the confusion to draw from these civilizational phase transitions new and stronger structures of possibility: the creative spirit.
Whoever ‘wins’, uncertainty is the only certainty, chaos the new normal. The flexibility to prevail on shifting sands requires open yet resilient minds.
What’s here now? 