“We must slow down today because running faster in a dark maze will not help us find our way out. We must slow down today because if we have to travel far, we must find comfort in each other – in all the glorious ambiguity that being in community brings. We must slow down because the correct answer is not adequate. We must slow down because trust, the emerging currency of the ‘next’ story, is not an issue of efficiency, but a creature of intimacy. We must slow down because that is the only way we will see the contours of new possibilities urgently seeking to open to us.”
Charles Eisenstein, The New and Ancient Story
Steps to Islands of Sanity
- Pay attention to relationship
Come together in communities – Have diversity time to emerge in hospitality spaces- Restore thinking
Sit there to figure out together – Sanity is to create depths in the solution- Create a personal practice
Meditate, be in nature, walking, sit alone
Margaret Wheatley
“The times are urgent.
Let us slow down.”
West African elders