PART IIIPRINCIPLES FOR ENGAGING EMERGENCE
The bad news: there is no key to the universe. The good news: it was never locked.
—Swami Beyondananda, Ten Guidelines to Enlightenment
A principle is a fundamental understanding or assumption that guides further understanding or action. Principles help us to make order out of chaos.
If practices guide us in how to do something, principles help us to sort through what to do. They describe the landscape, enabling us to discern useful characteristics so that we can make useful choices. Principles support us in designing our initiatives, organizing our work and ourselves, and determining what to do and how best to do it. For example, a commonly cited medical principle is “First, do no harm.” This fundamental ...
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