as the quantum physicist David Bohm used to say, “Thought creates the world and then says ‘I didn’t do it!’”

‘There’s only one issue in the world. It’s the reintegration of matter and mind.’

The first instrument, or capacity, the open mind, is based on our ability to access our intellectual, or IQ, type of intelligence. This allows us to see with fresh eyes, to deal with the objective figures and facts around us. As the saying goes, the mind works like a parachute: it only functions when it is open. The second capacity, the open heart,

observe deeply, connect to what wants to emerge, and then act on it instantly.

“You wait and wait and let your experience well up into something appropriate. In a sense, there is no decision making. What to do becomes obvious. You can’t rush it. Much of it depends on where you’re coming from and who you are as a person. This has a lot of implications for management. I am basically saying that what counts is where you’re comin

“the real power comes from recognizing patterns that are forming and fitting with them.”

it’s not only what leaders do and how they do it but their “interior condition,” that is, the inner place from which they operate—the source and quality of their attention.

“the success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.”

They are: (1) I-in-me: what I perceive based on my habitual ways of seeing and thinking, (2) I-in-it: what I perceive with my senses and mind wide open, (3) I-in-you: what I tune in to and sense from within with my mind and heart wide open, and (4) I-in-we and I-in-now: what I understand from the source of what wants to emerge, that is, from attend