"Everything impinges on everything else, often into radically different systems, although in such cases faintly. We doubt very much if there are any truly closed systems. - John SteinbeckSomewhere along the way of life, we learn that love means very different things to different people, and yet all personal love is but a fractal of a larger universal love. Some call it God. I call it wonder. - Maria Popovo"
"The concept of a "wider lens is more than a metaphor; it is an active resource that helps us recognize that, whatever situational context you find yourself in, it is simultaneously part of and interfaces with a larger context. Simply put, we all have a built-in stereoscopic lens if we choose to use it. We can zoom in and out regularly as we assess every situation we find ourselves in to gain a systemic perspective."
"If you miss that opportunity, you may very well have difficulty encountering life's inevitable paradoxes and their consequences, which are often solidified as a world of insurmountable opposites. "You can't pull out the grapes from the wine," as my friend Nora Bateson, President of the International Bateson Institute, is fond of saying. The world really doesn't function well when there is an attempt to fragment reality."
Everything is interconnected across diverse systems, making truly closed systems unlikely. A wider lens functions as an active resource that reveals how situational contexts are parts of larger, interfacing contexts. Humans possess a built-in stereoscopic capacity to zoom in and out to gain systemic perspective. Missing that ability increases difficulty encountering unavoidable paradoxes, which often harden into opposites. Fragmenting reality undermines functioning of health, education, environmental, and economic systems. Empathic, warm application of a wider lens helps avoid being trapped between conflicting forces and eases understanding of one's nested roles within family, community, religion, media, country, and ecosystems.
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