You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
The profound interrelatedness suggested by the story of Indra’s net, though currently only an analogy to contemporary scientific theory, may one day turn out to be scientific fact. And that possibility, in turn, transforms the whole idea of cultivating compassion from a nice idea into a matter of life-shaking proportions. Just by changing your pers
... See moreYongey Mingyur Rinpoche • The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
My colleague and co-author of Presence, Otto Scharmer, explains a shift in orientation and intention that arises from three “thresholds,” or openings through which we must pass in leading profound change: opening the head, opening the heart, and opening the will.10 The first involves opening ourselves to see and hear what is in front of us but we h
... See morePeter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
The world, the values of the world, are shaped by the choices each of us makes. Which means my thinking, my actions, my relationships, and my life create a front line for the possibilities of the entire species. Each one of us is an individual practice ground for what the whole can or cannot do, will or will not do.
Adrienne Maree Brown • Murmurations: Returning to the Whole
THIS JOURNEY IN a very large sense is about agency. About how we shape it, how we tap into it, how we sustain it. Still more specifically, it’s about how we marry empowerment to our love for the world, what matters to us, what wrongs we want to right, and what collective dreams we hope to realize.