“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” – Gregory Bateson

“Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.” – Gregory Bateson

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later… Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.” — Mary Hunter Austin

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness. ― Joy Page

“Contradiction is barren and destructive, yet paradox is creative. It is a powerful embracing of reality.” – Robert A. Johnson

“The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.” – Gregory Bateson

A whole other level of responsibility

Collective intelligence is not the same as groupthink. It’s a phenomenon that arises when a group of people are able to synchronize with each other and operate as a coherent unit while retaining their individuality, like organs in a collective body. On Human Geometry and Coherence euvieivanova.substack.com Insights for facilitating emergence in groups

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” ― H.P. Lovecraft