The spirit, which when it rises in creativity and passion and good-will service toward one another is a vortex of energy that can correct and heal what is broken and take us toward greater social good. That is a nebulous force waiting to rise up in America. We've already seen how holistic thinking has transformed the medical model in the United States. We used to think that the doctor and the doctor's medicine was the essence of healing. We now know, and mainstream medicine is aware, that the mind and spirit of the patient is as important a factor in healing as is the medicine brought forth by the doctor.
Business is another major U.S. institution that is in the process of tremendous transformation.
You no longer hear a business leader claiming that some sort of externalized restructuring or re-engineering is enough to truly reinvent an organization. It's now understood that the mind, the spirit, the involvement, the creativity, and the passion of the worker is every bit as important as any kind of external machinations of the management. American politics is the last great institution in this country that doesn't seem to have heard yet that the world has unalterably changed. I don't look at politics and say, this is a marvelous opportunity to heal the world - that's not why I'm interested in it. I'm much more interested in it because the way it is now, it's such a potent vehicle for the destruction of all that is most precious.