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Yep, "the daily/hourly/minutely work of evolution and growth."  And very much one that "embraces" more fully what is, existing limitations very much included. 

A similar perspective reached in a different way and expressed in different terms:

I am, and I can think, therefore I can change what I am/think

And another way to get there/express it

a world in which everything follows from a set of first principles wouldn't, in any case, be a very appealing one in which to live, for me at least. I would prefer a universe in which there is enough uncertainty to assure that the future has new things in it, and enough to allow me to conceive of rectifying existing wrongs and perhaps even contribute to doing so

And another ...

We don't need something out there to motivate communities any more than we need something out there to motivate ourselves.  Rather than agreeing on common principles to create communities of individuals we could instead simply rely on our existing motivations, on our experiences, and on our abilities to conceive alternatives via stories.

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.  I will meet you there ... Jelaluddin Rumi