"Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now."

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Source : Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.228, Crown Business

Betty Sue Flowers

#Mean Quotes #Attention Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.”
“I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.”
“Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
“Raki is bad enough, but it's nectar compared with pulque.”

Source : Fergus Hume (2016). “FERGUS HUME - The Ultimate Mystery Collection: 21 Thriller Novels in One Volume: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Red Money, The Bishop’s Secret, The Pagan’s Cup, A Coin of Edward VII, The Secret Passage, The Green Mummy, A Woman's Burden, The Crowned Skull, Hagar of the Pawn-Shop…”, p.611, e-artnow
“Kill an unborn baby and you still couldnâ€™t de-fetus”

Source : "616 rewind". Song by Kno, Deacon the Villain, Kashal-Tee, Sankofa & Tonedeff, October 30, 2001.
“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.”
“Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.”

Source : Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy (1987). “Language in Literature”, p.410, Harvard University Press
“To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.”

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