Heroes Not Zombies

Have you ever come across a sphere balanced on a cube? If I understand it correctly, Goethe had a sculpture like this in his garden. It was known as the “Stone of Good Fortune” which Goethe named “Agathe Tyche”. The cube represents stability and structure, whilst the sphere represents dynamism, movement and change.

So simple, but so attractive and powerful. I love this combination. It captures two of the great forces of the universe which work together to create the reality which we experience…….regularity, laws and order combined with constant movement and change. We need both, although some of us have a greater preference for one over the other. Some of us like a life of habits, routines and rituals, where others are always looking for something different. I don’t think we need to choose. And I don’t think one of these forces is “better” than the other. The point is, my preferred, “and not or”. We really couldn’t have the lives we have without a constant interplay between these two apparent opposites.