World Space - Love as the Differentiating relating

I want to see spaces everywhere for coming together, harmonizing all peoples, engendering love, good will, skill, creativity to guide human action to build human relations.

At the root of such a space, at the eternal beginning of such a space, is the mute unknown, the question, a returning to before language, thought and experience to begin anew.

Imagine all of us around a fire. Representatives of the world. How to entertain the fundamental questions. Where is the starting point?

But we do not come naked to the circle. That is our trouble, that is our gift. It is our trouble, because our holding to the words, concepts and experiences, painful and joyful, that we know can keep us from hearing what is new and different. It is our gift, because in offering our skilled knowings to all, we offer power, potential paths of doing and knowing. We offer, also, achieved islands of meaning, as it were -- achieved coherent perspectives, which offer landings to other people, and in so doing increase the scope of our freedom, enlarge the landscape of being.

How to build the place, the regular coming, where each of us brings his and her unique gifts, and offers them up to all, throws them in the fire, the common treasure?

Two things can be said to characterize human beings: We are all of us in fundamental ways alike. And each of us is utterly unique. How in the context of this paradox do we create a common world?

The paradox easily confuses our thinking. How can we build the skill to hold the required distinctions in place so we are not so easily confused. This is one function of neologisms. Let us consider neologizing. Hence, isonomy is not democracy.

There are many ways to create a common world within the sway of the poles of our uniqueness and difference. But the common world I look to create is the one that arises between people who appreciate and seek to further draw out and develop the uniqueness of each. Differentiation through love is deepening relation and growth of power in each and all.