Occupation: Writer Birth: August 17, 1944
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience..
Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way..
Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and ….
Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrit….
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans..
In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust….
Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us..
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root….
Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to….
Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along..
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they ….
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order..
we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human ….
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die..
The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it i….
In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable..
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role..
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power..
Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, ….
We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host..