Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) in Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
Poetry, favorite quotations, and journal entries. My inspiration is this quotation by Loren Eiseley: "Everything in the mind is in rat's country... Nothing is lost, but it can never be again as it was. You will only find the bits and cry out because they were yourself...
Monday, June 15, 2009
Staying Put
"One of the big changes made in mid-nineteenth century biology was the notion that natural selection is a force for change. It's not. Natural selection is a force for staying put... What you've got to do is change in such a way that the system of changing has a certain steadiness, a certain balance."
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