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A slime mold has a dual nature and provides a striking metaphor for the dual or multiple descriptions of nature. On the one hand, since the colony is composed of independent individuals, its description should be close to a causal, reductionist one. On the other, it is a single, cohesive body which demands a holistic, global description. The slime mold therefore shows how collectivity and individuality, holistic and reductionist aspects can exist within the same system.
Synchronicity
F. David Peat
Older women have learned the importance of reasonable expectations. We know that all our desires will not be fulfilled, that the world isn’t organized around pleasing us and that others, especially our children, are not waiting for our opinions and judgments. We know that the joys and sorrows of life are as mixed together as salt and water in the sea. We don’t expect perfection or even relief from suffering. A good book, a piece of homemade pie or a call from a friend can make us happy. As my aunt Grace, who lived in the Ozarks, put it, “I get what I want, but I know what to want.”
The Joy of Being a Woman in Her 70s
Mary Pipher
The highest aspiration of the creative artist should be to reveal those extensive emotions and insights which endure within him. In so doing he makes visible to his fellow man. something of the ultimate that is more often felt than seen, Man questions; the artist in him answers. The answer is as true as the vision is sound. Sound vision requires far more than the eye. It takes the whole man. What we see is no more and no less than what we are.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
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