Category: Quotes
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Operating as mechanism vs. organism
Elisabet Sahtouris makes the following distinction between operating as mechanism vs. organism in her book EarthDance:1 MECHANISM ORGANISM Allopoietic Autopoietic Inventor created Self-created Hierarchic structure Holarchic embeddedness Top-down command Holarchic dialog/negotiation System engineered System negotiated Repaired by engineers/experts Repairs itself Evolution by external redesign Evolution by internal redesign Exists for product or profit Exists for health and…
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Principles of healthy living systems
Elisabet Sahtouris identifies the following Organizational and Operational Principles of Healthy Living Systems in her book EarthDance (my emphasis in bold):1 Self-creation (autopoiesis) Complexity (diversity of parts) Embeddedness in larger holons and dependence on them (holarchy) Self-reflexivity (autognosis-self-knowledge) Self-regulation/maintenance (autonomics) Response ability — to internal and external stress or change Input/output of matter/energy/information from/to other…
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The territory beyond
Chapter Twenti-six, in Pathways to Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander, is about The Territory Beyond. Rosamund Stone Zander writes that The Territory Beyond is “beyond what we know and expect of ourselves as human beings, beyond the norms of achievement …, beyond our ordinary measures …, and beyond what we picture as vitality” (p.189). In The…
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Diane Musho Hamilton on exploring truth in all points
Here is an article1 by Diane Musho Hamilton where she comments on the US presidential election 2016. Hamilton writes (my emphasis in bold): “… because [truth] … is fragmented, our interiors feel fragmented. When it becomes so difficult to find the truth, we start to allow crude and reductive discourse to limit our own minds.…
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Produktionsstyrning och fragmenterad vård
“Vården i Sverige har under de senaste decennierna … lånat produktionsstyrning från industrin vilket lett till en fragmenterad vård med en arbetsmiljö som inte längre är acceptabel.” —Vårduppropet1 Fotnot: 1 Vårduppropet, Upprop: Läget i sjukvården är helt orimlig, SvD 2016-08-16.
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När livet står på spel och tillvaron rubbas
“Jag har arbetat i mer än trettio år och jag är djupt oroad över det som sker … Det finns otaliga exempel på beprövad erfarenhet … som visar på vad som är väsentligt då livet står på spel och tillvaron rubbas. … Det är inte individuella diagnoser … som är det primära. Det väsentliga handlar…
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David Bohm on ecology, organization, thinking, dialogue, and wholeness
David Bohm on ecology, organization, thinking, dialogue, and wholeness:1 “… the ecology in itself is not a problem. It works perfectly well by itself. Its due to us, right?” “The earth is one household really, but we are not treating it that way …” “… the more you made society big and you had organization,…
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Holacracy and Arthur Koestler
The organizational structure in Holacracy is a holarchy, a term coined by Arthur Koestler in The Ghost in the Machine. Brian Robertson writes in his book on Holacracy that: The type of structure used for organizations in Holacracy is not a traditional hierarchy, but a “holarchy.” Arthur Koestler coined the term in his 1967 book…
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Michelle Holliday on thrivability
I tweet quotes from the books I read from my twitter account @janhoglund. Here is a compilation of the most retweeted and liked quotes from Michelle Holliday’s upcoming book The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World (in italics): … thrivability – the intention and practice of enabling life to thrive…
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Michael Pannwitz on pre-conditions for Open Space
Here are quotes of Michael M Pannwitz from an email to the World wide Open Space Technology email list June 6, 2016. (My emphasis in bold.) I think that there is a much easier way to have the sponsor find out whether ost [Open Space Technology] fits his situation… Simply go through the preconditions for…