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
We often think of language as a means to an end, but rarely take the time to consider whether language in itself is influencing our thoughts, not just enabling the sharing of them.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
Language - means to end?
Competing against AI?
Spirituality is about love, truth, goodness, beauty, giving and caring. Spirituality is about wholeness and completion. Spirituality is our ultimate human need. It pushes us to transcend ourselves and become grounded in the ultimate source of reality.
John Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You
Universal Need
Spirituality and Sustainability
Spirituality is knowing that there's more to our limited idea of ourselves. To realise who we truly are.
Reaching Beyond
In learning about untranslatable words, we are getting to explore new worlds and through introspection, a window into ours and other people’s underlying “wiring”. We are not just loosely learning about trivial terms, but in certain cases, a lot about ourselves.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
Seeing through others’ eyes
In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Shaping our world
In Greek, charisma translates as a “gift.” Rather than keep that gift to exploit for themselves, some charismatic people disperse it. They hand it out at social events, such as the holiday parties at this time of year, and use it to guide the energy of a shared occasion. I call these people vibe popes. Consider it a nondenominational title for... See more
Adrienne Matei • The Type of Charisma That Saves a Holiday Party
Gatherings crackle and flourish when real thought goes into them, when (often invisible) structure is baked into them, and when a host has the curiosity, willingness, and generosity of spirit to try.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Informing Gatherings