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Apr 8, 2004
"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines." --R. Buckminster Fuller
No Straight Lines
In 1927, at the age of 32, he stood on the shores of Lake Michigan, prepared to throw himself into the freezing waters. His first child had died. He was bankrupt, discredited and jobless, and he had a wife and new-born daughter. On the verge of suicide, it suddenly struck him that his life belonged, not to himself, but to the universe. He chose at that moment to embark on what he called "an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity." His name was Buckminster Fuller, who has written 28 books, has 47 doctorates, received hundreds of awards and has been around the world 57 times!
BE THE CHANGE
"Bucky" Fuller's mission was to discover what "an average man with neither money, nor corporate or governmental backing could do on behalf of all humanity." His first experiment was on himself. What would be your life's mission statement?
