Ampersand Living

Decades ago I started saying, “The most important word in every language is And.” So often, I catch myself setting up an either/or polarity—about all sorts of things—and I stop for a do-over. I switch either/or to both/and.

It’s the only way we’ll ever have a world that works for everyone, and we need it. Now more than ever.

So, this is the very real question that I ask every person I meet.

Do you ampersand?

Here’s what it means:

We live in a world of polarity based on a universal law called the Complementarity of Opposites. If you look, you’ll see it everywhere. Stop/Go. Day/Night. Expansion/Contraction. It’s a world based on Or.

And, we need a world that works for everyone. No exceptions. None. At all. Ever. For e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e. Forever.

So when I say, “Do you ampersand?” I’m asking if you, too, want an inclusive world, one that isn’t all about you v. me, or your tribe v. mine, or your God v. my God. Nope, when I say everyone, I mean everyone.

This practice, and one other—saying yes to what-is—are how I run my life. Every day. I founded iAmpersand.org as a ministry, a sort of loose order, if you will, of people who also want to live based on And rather than Or.

There are three modalities through which you can approach this work with me: teaching, counseling, and speaking.