Michael Schreiber
@schreibrations
Michael Schreiber
Contemplative ecology can best be understood as an expression of the diverse and wide-ranging desire emerging within contemporary culture to identify our deepest feeling for the natural world as part of a spiritual longing.
Douglas E. Christie • The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology
Profound change rarely comes from direct interventions in the world. Rather, it comes from working indirectly over time, helping people engage consciously to develop their own understanding, motivations, aspirations, and will.
Carol Sanford • Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Institutions and Humans
This is one of the paradoxes of creative collaboration. Great Groups are made up of people with rare gifts working together as equals. Yet, in virtually every one there is one person who acts as maestro, organizing the genius of the others. He or she is a pragmatic dreamer, a person with an original but attainable vision. Ironically, the leader is
... See morePatricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Reaching out to nature and history: The notion of community is a breathless affair when we imagine it as solely human.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes
... See moreScott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen
Most “communities” these days revolve around one person who keeps giving and giving while everyone else takes. A real community is reciprocal, but what you see now is one-sided labor disguised as “leadership.”
Ana1:1 Alignment sessionsx.comthe courage needed to engage in battle was indistinguishable from love.
