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Emergentism is actually a concept that extends way beyond linguistics. Very generally speaking, it’s the idea that simple interactions can give rise to complex systems. And those complex systems are much more than just a sum of their parts. Which I know sounds really abstract, but this kind of thing, emergent phenomena, are actually really common a... See more

Samia Bouzid • Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language

When our identity is anchored solely to our expression, it’s based on interpretation. This interpretation is manufactured from past circumstances, future projections, and the opinions and understandings of others.

Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness

Opening. Becoming.

Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

In our transformation work, we learn first to identify with the positive ego in its functioning as objective, compassionate observer. As our identification with detached and loving selfobservation deepens, we become the bowl of awareness itself, rather than the contents of that bowl.

Eva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork

The paradox of contemplative insight is that we come to a flowering of new identity by emptying ourselves of our old identity. This emptying is not something we do, it is something we allow to happen.

Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening

the quality or condition of being interdependent, or mutually reliant, on each other.57

adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

The way we have to deal with ego is by transcending it. We have to outgrow the illusion that the ego is right and that anything can be good for one of us if it’s not good for all of us.

Lawrence Block • Random Walk

Sometimes the prize feels closer, other times farther away. Still other times it feels like we are drowning in aimlessness and exasperation. An identity crisis looms for any high achiever flirting with failure, and a calculation begins on the conflicting forces of sunk costs and lost time on the one hand, and reputational harm on the other. As entr... See more

“In the same way we human beings have to let go of our pride, our separateness, and not bother about our individual identity. If we immerse ourselves in the process of life, and trust the process of the universe, and identify ourselves with others, we can become the tree of a thousand branches and a million plums.”