Being present in the moment does not mean acting without intention or flowing through life without any plans. Yet, we would do better to attend more carefully to the process by which we create our plans and intentions (Wheatley, 2008). We need to see these plans as processes that enable us to clarify our intent and strengthen its connections to new information. We need more attention to the processes we use to create our own lives. Healthy processes create better relationships among us and more clarity about who we are. In this way, we can create greater capacity to know what we to do. We wave together our lives as resilient and flexible as a spider's web.
As we learn to live and work in this process world, we are rewarded with other changes in our behavior. We might become more curious about differences, more open to life's surprises and more respectful of one another. We do become more patient and accepting. We also do become more willing to to move into the dance of life. Although this looked frantic from the outside and impossible to master we realize that life becomes eventually a good partner and its demands are not unreasonable. A great capacity for change lives in every one of us.
