Category: Quotes
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David Bohm och den vetenskapliga andan
Paavo Pylkkänen skriver i David Bohm och den vetenskapliga andan om Bohm och hans syn på vetenskap, andlighet och – inte minst – dialog (min betoning i fetstil). Bohm och hans världsbild “Bohm upplevde mer och mer att … den verkliga utmaningen var huruvida människor kunde diskutera och agera tillsammans på ett kreativt och koherent…
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The misfit’s myth
“Even at the moment of your failure, right there, you are beautiful. You don’t know it yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That’s your beauty!“ 1 —Lidia Yuknavitch Notes: 1 Lidia Yuknavitch, The beauty of being a misfit @ (11:41), TED2016, Filmed Feb 2016. (Accessed 28 May 2016)
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Carol Black on the wildness of children
Carol Black writes the following in On the Wildness of Children (my emphasis in bold): When we first take children from the world and put them in an institution, they cry. … But gradually, over the many years of confinement, they adjust. … The same people who do not see themselves as “above” nature but…
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Beth Tener on working together
If you want to arrive at a shared vision and a plan that integrates and builds on the breadth and depth of expertise and perspectives of the group, it has to be developed together. The challenge is that in order to get to that, there is a time early on where you have to bring…
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George Monbiot on destroying autonomy
The workplace has been overwhelmed by a mad, Kafkaesque infrastructure of assessments, monitoring, measuring, surveillance and audits, centrally directed and rigidly planned, whose purpose is to reward the winners and punish the losers. It destroys autonomy, enterprise, innovation and loyalty, and breeds frustration, envy and fear. 1 — George Monbiot Notes: 1 Sick of this…
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Joseph Campbell on the quietness within
The place to find is within yourself. … The athlete who is in top form has a quite place within himself, and it’s around this, somehow, that his action occurs. If he’s all out there in the action field, he will not be performing properly. … this is true for dance as well. There’s a…
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A protective ring for creative support
Julia Cameron writes that “we are meant to midwife dreams for one another.” 1 Getting creative support, having a “protective ring“, 2 or circle, is often “the difference between success and failure, between hope and despair.” 3 She outlines the following principles for such a circle: 4 Creativity flourishes in a place of safety and…
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Foundational beliefs of the Genuine Contact Way
The Genuine Contact Way, as applied to our work, is about inviting everyone within the organization to express their fullness in all that they do, to contribute to the collective wisdom of the organization, and to experience high enjoyment, high creativity, high productivity, and high engagement every day. 1 The five foundational beliefs of the…
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The dancing rainbow within
Mae-Wan Ho’s new book Living Rainbow H2O is dedicated to the dancing rainbow within, which is made possible by the water that makes up all organisms. 1 Mae-Wan Ho writes (my emphasis in bold): “The organism is thick with coherent activities on every scale, from the macroscopic down to the molecular and below. I call…
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Joseph Campbell on following your bliss
“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are — if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life…