Generativity
That which encourages, elucidates, facilitates Generative Behaviors from Engagement to Exchange, and more. That which helps us help each other to be MORE
Generativity
Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.
Brené Brown • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Connection to each other and all of life
The intelligence of the will leads to a spiritual view of action. Whether we’re in touch with it or not, each of us has a part that wants to ceaselessly move forward and create. This is our immortal part, the higher self. It is connected to a higher life that fills us with wisdom and makes us indifferent to temporary failure. The goal of modern spi
... See morePhil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
The self that wishes action
Spirituality and Sustainability
The invisible Pareto principle is active, where we likely have created words for the twenty percent of possible situations that make up 80% of our collective experience. Once concepts pass a threshold of need, words will naturally be created to fill the void.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
Pareto Principle & Need generation of words
SPIRITUALITY IS THE ART OF TRANSFIGURATION. We should not force ourselves to change by hammering our lives into any predetermined shape. We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined programme or plan for our lives.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Go with the flow
it is the way a group is gathered that determines what happens in it and how successful it is, the little design choices you can make to help your gathering soar.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Informing gatherings
I think untranslatable words offer us the opportunity to expand our horizons, through simply learning about and questioning that which we were not previously exposed to.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
Expansion through words
Infrastructure might be built by hands but culture is built by tongues. The person who changes the cultural conversation is someone who is able to identify truth and describe it so others can not only understand but participate in the story as a conscious being themselves.
Changing the cultural conversation, storytelling
The capacious term 'spirituality' lacks clarity because it is not so much a unitary concept as a signpost for a range of touchstones; our search for meaning, our sense of the sacred, the value of compassion, the experience of transcendence, the hunger for transformation.
Dr Jonathan Rowson • The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand
Broad range of meaning