[Sunday Contemplation] Are You Trapped In The Old, Searching For The New?

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Dear friends

There is the old and there is the new, the old is not bad and the new not good, both have their place on the scale of usefulness.

The old is crumbling and the new struggling to be born, but although decaying the old is not weak for it controls both real world power and wealth.

The new listens to the words of the old but hears only stories, myths and the anxieties of children. And in listening to the new, the old although perceiving a spark, inevitably sees only weakness as in the garbled wisdom of the elderly.

Although strong the old is rigid, and although soft the new is open and interested.

The old was developed using discipline, control and punishment and the new by mastery, autonomy and purpose. The old collects in groups driven by the need to protect and collude and the new by common interests, vision and the wholehearted desire to cooperatively create.

The old was once new as the new is now, and the new over time will become as the old has now become. All things great once began as fragile and all things decayed once stood as great.

There is the new way and there is the old and although they use the same words they speak a different language.

One speaks of power and ancestry and the other of mastery and authenticity. One speaks of control, the other of influence. One speaks of peace while making war and the other of disobedience while creating tolerance.

The old is simple, but it all it's cleverness can't keep up. And for the new to be, it must learn to embrace the core truths of the old and emerge not replace.