If we can cultivate our capacity to be in the dark and formless for a while, if we can remember the importance of the beginner’s mind, we might be able to start to build the world we truly want rather than settling for trying to salvage and plug up holes on this completely dysfunctional and leaky boat we are currently sinking in.

As so many studies have shown us, and as the Chinese character for crisis even translates, crises are not necessarily scary and bad, they are also opportunities. Opportunity to do things differently, to choose a different course. They have the potential remind us of who and what we truly are: kind, loving, social, generous, care-taking, responsible creatures (not the greedy, selfish, violent, hoarding visions of ourselves we have been told we are by media, politics, and even some social sciences!)