“A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.” ThinkingWorldLongAgeSocialLevelsAwarenessDependsMachinesInstitutionsMetaphorDespiteFasterSocial SystemsDisharmony Author:Betty Sue Flowers
“What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.” ThinkingAwarenessCallingConsciousCapacityAbsolutesAriseBuddhistManifestDomainWombConscious Awareness Book:Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society Source: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
“When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsTryingMightPracticeTheoryExperienceWay Of ThinkingMaterialisticTranscendentCultivationProfane Book:Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society Source: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
