The Mirror Image Concept
A Timeless Way of Living
A General Form of How & Why Things Work
VISION -
Changing the way we live by changing the way we think.
Tend a garden and you’ll be able to tend your body, soul and spirit. Tend yourself and you’ll be able to lead a family. Lead a family and you’ll be able to lead in the community. Lead in the community and you’ll be able to settle disputes among neighbors. Tend a garden, your body, soul and spirit, your family, your neighbors and your community, and you’ll be settling disputes, governing nations, writing policy and developing better systems of governance for the world and naturally, lots of other gardens.
ETHICS -
The ethics illustrate that which is higher than vision. Vision is necessary for life but on its own, vision is still capable of misleading or getting caught up with ego. There must be something over and above vision. If vision is not nested under something higher than itself it will have the tendency to adapt inward or toward self-service. Vision must adapt as it matures and it's the ethics that will guide the process of adaptation.
These ethics are guiding our vision:
- Spiritual & Natural systems are One
- Observe & Interact
- Members Define the Whole, The Whole Defines the Members
- The Relational Dynamics
- A Burden that is Light
- As Required by Nature - Requisite
- The Future We En-vision
- Transparency
PATTERNS = PRINCIPLES + PRACTICE
Patterns are tangible, observable effects of the relationships
between Principle and Practice
Principles are the intangible, invisible code
Practices are how we engage with our understanding of the code
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