Such questions vastly outdistance any ability to answer. Young shows us the difficulty in predicting what is to come. "The new whole will, by definition, possess qualities which are not present in any of its parts alone. So the metaphors based on our present models--a cosmic mind, a universal culture, a nervous system for the planet--will, I suspect, be quite inadequate to describe the form that has not yet come into being. Our most imaginative projections will pale beside the reality that takes shape tomorrow."
We ask for meaning and purpose from outside ourselves, but these must grow within us or they are not real. Our purpose is IN our search for meaning. We are given no direction or guidance, save that of the processes which created us and sustain us. We must direct ourselves. Each of us, alone and together, must participate by choosing, learning and growing. We weave the pattern of The Grassroots Creation.
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