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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.

Betty Sue Flowers

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.
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Better Create Faster Industrial Institution Predictability
So you’re stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him… So start by promising your judge that you’ll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow… Save details for the judge.
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Energy Judging Writing
If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves and the world.
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Integrating Next Reconnection Science World
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.
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Experience Practice Thinking
What we’re calling ‘presencing’ is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact.
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Buddhist Calling Thinking
The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought … will emerge from building three integrated capacities.
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Hands Heart Reality
The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living.
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Living might Once Problem
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.
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Awareness Collectively Domain Presencing
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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Attention Awareness Mean
What’s emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
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Different Leadership Science
When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It’s almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.
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Finding Mirrors Play Yourself
The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.
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Community Groups Individual

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.

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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.

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