Getting There from Here showcases the people, ideas, practices, and movements working toward a more coherent, life‑affirming worldview—and the many paths available for participating in that shift.
Doing Matters
Thinking About Doing Is Only the Beginning
It’s not enough to read, reflect, or meditate on how the world works. Insight is valuable, but change only begins when ideas turn into action — when we take what we’ve learned and put it to work in the real world.
Thinking prepares us. Doing moves us.
Every meaningful shift in society has depended on people who were willing to step forward, contribute, experiment, and participate. Not experts alone, not institutions alone — people. Ordinary individuals choosing to help, to build, to show up, to try something different. That’s where momentum comes from.
And the same is true today. The future won’t be shaped by wishful thinking or by waiting for someone else to fix things. It will be shaped by the small, steady actions we take: lending a hand to someone who needs support, joining organizations that are working toward a better future, strengthening our communities, and practicing the values we want to see reflected in the world around us.
Reflection, learning, and inner work matter because they sharpen our understanding and clarify our direction. But they’re only the starting point. Change requires participation — real engagement with the world as it is, and a willingness to help move it toward what it could be.
Thinking opens the door. Doing is how we walk through it.
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Featured Articles
M.L. King, Jr. — Moral Clarity in a Nation Divided
In a time marked by fear, division, and entrenched inequality, M. L. King, Jr. held to a larger truth — that beneath all the ways
Einstein’s Persistence in Advancing a New Worldview
Einstein is now synonymous with genius, but in the early 20th century he was a young thinker whose ideas seemed too radical to be taken
Food for Thought
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Small Things We Can Do
- Support people in need. Offer your time, skills, or resources to those facing hardship—not as charity, but as a way of strengthening the social fiber we all rely on.
- Seek out local or national groups working on issues like sustainability, democratic reform, education, or community resilience, and contribute in whatever capacity you can.
- Engage with people who hold different perspectives, seek to understand, and work towards reducing the polarizatoin that keeps societies stuck.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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M.L. King, Jr. — Moral Clarity in a Nation Divided
In a time marked by fear, division, and entrenched inequality, M. L. King, Jr. held to a larger truth — that beneath all the ways we separate ourselves, we belong to one human family. His moral clarity, grounded idealism, and courage in the face of resistance helped a divided nation
Einstein’s Persistence in Advancing a New Worldview
Einstein is now synonymous with genius, but in the early 20th century he was a young thinker whose ideas seemed too radical to be taken seriously. His breakthroughs helped accelerate a shift in how we understand reality, but his path was anything but smooth.
Gandhi’s Resolve in Redefining Power
In the early 20th century, Mahatma Gandhi’s leadership in nonviolent resistance emerged alongside a broader unfolding in how we understand reality—across science, society, and culture—each contributing a thread to the weaving of a new, more interconnected worldview.