Full Speed Ahead

I’M THE FIRST TO ADMIT I HAVE HIGH HOPES for foresight initiatives like The Future Lounge to play a role in the return of social vitality. Common sense says by engaging people around the right set of ideas and values we can mobilize their intensity in a dramatic fashion. The moment has come. The shape of things are ripe for the shaping. We CAN direct the way the world goes round once we see it DOES revolve around us to a certain degree – the degree that we take part in the valid and inalienable responsibility to serve the greater good within the larger whole. Right in the palm of our hand rests the utmost privilege to effect real and lasting change on this planet. It all starts within without. The spirit of individual freedom reflects a recognition of interdependence, a sacred contract to lift up one another, to grow community culture, to weave the future in perfect symmetry where what I do is what will be done to me. Once we get on the path, nothing will ever be the same. Do you feel it, too? It only takes a spark to open up our hearts. Such tiny little things make it all begin and suddenly a sense of awe is revived—the humility and wonder, thrill and anxiety, splendor and mystery of living—in self, society, and spirit—infuses all of existence.