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Wisdom arises from perceiving patterns and multiple perspectives, not isolated facts or emotions.

The neologism "meadowing" evokes the beauty of messy interdependence in both nature and human connections.

Listening and sharing everyday experiences fosters community and reveals our shared humanity.

It is from large perceptions combined with impersonal emotion that wisdom most readily springs.

Bertrand RussellWhat is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?Gregory BatesonIn recent blogs, I shared my sense of empathy, altruism, and win-win communication, all of which provide context for a segue into a wider perspective on life. These skills help resolve interpersonal difficulties and discord. When they are heartfelt, they foster a beginner's mind of experiencing and appreciating the messiness and beauty of how nature works. Our existence is one of constant patterns, searching for appropriate connections that are, unfortunately due to cultural constraints, difficult to attain in many ways.

By adopting a peripheral coalescing view, which naturally helps you seize the present assertively while simultaneously accepting its broader landscape, you can enter the world of everyday always present interdependence. It also shows us how to have rewarding relationships and a quality life, as well as how we can access and better preserve that interdependency. We now know, for example, how trees in a forest communicate with each other to help maintain the balance of survival. This synchrony, or "good vibrations," exists, as demonstrated by the shared rhythm of swinging pendulums or the improvisation of a........

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