SEEKING GROWTH

We seek growth when we look for patterns in our relationship between things, people, experiences or happenings (our world).  This is because we have to name them to help us make sense of them. This helps us assess them as predictable or they present us with the need to explore them to understand how they might create a new future. We look for similarities, differences and connections to give the patterns meaning across space and time.

• Where is the coherence?  
• Where are the sources of tension?  
• Where are the contradictions?

These three questions help us make sense of our structurally determined world and in our relationship with that world with which we are structurally coupled. We will not grow if we are stuck in patterns of interaction, moods and thinking that predetermine the choices we make. If we want to grow we have to question the assumptions embraced by our culture and create new patterns of coherence.  For example, we can stay in a mood state of resignation or choose to see things from a mood state of ambition. It is our commitment to understand the source of our concern and the contradictions that created it can provide clues for a way forward.