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.

For me, just as scary as the things mentioned above, is the notion that we have so internalized and naturalized a dog-eats-dog system that we don’t have the faith or imagination to consider that on the other side of this crisis (hopefully one in which we act sooner to lessen the overwhelm on our quite pathetically prepared health system due to decades of privatization, and deregulation), there might not be something different, even better.