Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contains multitudes.

Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.

Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.   

Look always at the whole