“Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.” KnowsI CanFeelingsUnderstandingCommunityMy OwnGroupsShareCommunicationConversationUnderstoodDepthDefinedIntimacyMutualLacking Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.” MindHumansGivenUnderstandingInterestingConsciousnessStudyGroupsDrugApproachResearchSubstanceHuman MindAbandonedGiven UpPsychedelic Author:Stanislav Grof
“A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it takes much patience and understanding and good will on the part of the strong ones both in the subjugated group and in the group holding the power to provide an atmosphere of stability in which the frightened bravado on both sides of the fence can dissipate itself without increasing the chaos that is already intrinsic in the situation.” PeopleStatesStrongUnderstandingSidesSituationGroupsPositionChaosAtmosphereFrightenedStabilityFenceBoth SidesGood WillSubjugationBravado Author:Vivian Gornick
“People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.” PeopleWorldReasonPoliticalUnderstandingIssuesClearHappenedGroupsEconomicOrganizedVotersIncentives Author:Thomas Sowell
“Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.” BelieveChristianUnderstandingGroupsResponseJewTrinity Author:Miroslav Volf
“As the owner of the Arison Group, a philanthropic and business enterprise that spans across 40 countries in 5 continents, my ongoing challenge is to bridge the gap between what I envision and its understanding and practical implementation. The Arison Group operates to realize the overall vision of Doing Good.” CountryUnderstandingRealizingChallengesVisionGroupsPracticalsBridgesEnterpriseOwnersGapsContinentsOngoingDoing GoodPhilanthropicImplementation Author:Shari Arison
“Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.” ThinkingWritingStillsProblemSchoolLawFightingReadingUnderstandingRaceClassPovertyStudyGroupsConditionsStudentsTheoryProjectsIntellectualTrainingStandardsConcernTraditionPrisonCriticalActivistDisabilityGraduatesAcademicScholarTopicsCampusLaw SchoolFighting On Author:Dean Spade
“I think humans in general, make associations and feel the need to group things together to have a better understanding of them. Though I would say my music is more country in a lot of ways, than it is surfy.” ThinkingWayNeedsFeelsHumansCountryTogetherUnderstandingGroupsMusic IsAssociation Author:Tristan Prettyman
“Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.” DifferentWould BeKidsCultureFightingUnderstandingTeacherGroupsChicagoLumpsVietnameseAdministratorsFighting Each Other Author:Malik Yusef
“Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.” PeopleGivingUnderstandingSupportGroupsInfluenceProductsIntellectualGive MePrisonNotebookHegemonyInfluencing People Author:Okky Madasari
“With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.” ProblemFacesUnderstandingIssuesGroupsEnormous Author:Marshall Goldsmith
“In the Gospel we have just heard, Jesus, the Master, teaches the crowds and the small group of his disciples by accommodating himself to their ability to understand. ... Jesus does not seek to 'play the professor.' Instead, he seeks to reach people's hearts, their understanding and their lives, so that they may bear fruit.” PeopleHeartMayDoePlayJesusUnderstandingAbilityTeachHeardGroupsMastersBearsFruitCrowdsProfessorsDiscipleSmall Groups Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion