Robert Kegan famous quotes
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Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.
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Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.
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Learning is the making of meaning.
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That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we 'know' to be present that causes us anxiety.
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Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches for another cigarette. Change fails to occur because we mean both things. It fails to occur because we are a living contradiction.
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It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety.
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What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.
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When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it.
-- Robert Kegan
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Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.
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We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are
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If the news is that important, it will find me.
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You'll never find me in a gym.
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Find me now. Before someone else does.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.
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In those times I can't seem to find God, I rest in the assurance that He knows how to find me.
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You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?
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I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!
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