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“Most of us and our organizations still follow the old
mythology, where we are thought of as perpetual motion machines, working at one
speed—fast as can be, productive as possible—like stair-climbers in a gym, up,
up, up, asking us to exert more effort but getting nowhere very quickly.
Ascent, ascent, higher and higher. Never descent, never darkness or a plateau
for regeneration.
“As a consequence, we become imprisoned in our own
rigidities. What if, instead, we realized, like Ram Dass, that we go through
many incarnations in this one life? What if we realized that instead of ‘things’
getting better and better if we work harder and harder, that, like a seed, we
will each in our own rhythm, go through endless cycles of gestation, birth,
growth, death, and renewal?”
—Dawna Markova, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
