How unintended consequences wreak havoc on our expectations concerning the connection between intention and responsibility. I've been looking for ways to illuminate the space hidden behind our expectation that the only way to be responsible is to plan and then act out our intentions. Everyone I know, including myself, has had a hard time dealing with the vertiginous leap away from our habitual sense of cause and effect, planning and implementation, desire and control; any of the ways we customarily respond to the gap between what we find and what we would like to see. Yet all of the results of my research and meditation lead to this conclusion:
"I never thought of that!"
"I never thought of that!"
"I never thought of that!"
How unintended consequences wreak havoc on our expectations concerning the connection between intention and responsibility. I've been looking for ways to illuminate the space hidden behind our expectation that the only way to be responsible is to plan and then act out our intentions. Everyone I know, including myself, has had a hard time dealing with the vertiginous leap away from our habitual sense of cause and effect, planning and implementation, desire and control; any of the ways we customarily respond to the gap between what we find and what we would like to see. Yet all of the results of my research and meditation lead to this conclusion: