Progress...

"All progress is gained through mistakes and their rectification. No good comes fully fashioned, out of God's hand, but has to be carved out through repeated experiments and repeated failures by ourselves. This is the law of individual growth. The same law controls social and political evolution also. The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress."
- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

I post this to point out that it is important that we (humanity) do not beat ourselves up for the mess that we are in...we must simply recognise it, recognise our role in causing it, recognise our potential to move on from it and...simply move on out of the mess and move on up the evolutionary process...

"Here we go, here we go, here we go!!!"

G*

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Comment by David Wilson Siegert on August 9, 2010 at 4:11pm: You're absolutely right that we shouldn't beat ourselves up over this. Many see our times as a shift of ages and certainly this could be true if we choose to create that. I see our times as a coming of age story for humanity where we must learn from our mistakes, and as many do while they are growing up, painfully so. The beauty in this is the very transitory nature of life and as you mention, the vast potential. Because we are in such a mess, we have so much work to do, and in this there is a beautiful story emerging. This is reminiscent of the Biblical story of the prodigal son who went astray and then when realizing the error in his ways repented and found his way home. The point was that there was more rejoicing over the son who went astray but found his way than the one who never went astray. This message is so poignant for our times. What we need to remember is that now is the time to pull things back together and do the hard work that's required before it becomes too late and we reach the chaos point