Coexistence

If we want to coexist with the other person, we must see that his certainty —however undesirable it may seem to us— is as legitimate and valid as our own, because like our own, that certainty expresses his conservation of structural coupling in a domain of existence. … A conflict can go away only if we move to another domain where coexistence takes place. The knowledge of this knowledge constitutes the social imperative for a human centered ethics.

(Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela (1992) in Tree of Knowledge, pp. 245-246)

I am challenged at this time to see a way to get to such a place on a communal level, though I have seen this potential in individual interaction. And individual change can impact social structures. One person can make a difference. Individual integrity is the source of group or organizational integrity.

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