emerging possibilities Quotes

In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

When there's change, there's opportunity.

I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along.

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.