Sublime

He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of…

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However, what we do in life is less important than who we are. We are here to learn to be ourselves. This is our primary gift to the world. To be yourself is to vibrate with the ideas of the cosmos inside you. It is to stand on a threshold quivering with excitement at the dream that is pressing to come through you. When you are living from your Cor

Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

My colleague and co-author of Presence, Otto Scharmer, explains a shift in orientation and intention that arises from three “thresholds,” or openings through which we must pass in leading profound change: opening the head, opening the heart, and opening the will.10 The first involves opening ourselves to see and hear what is in front of us but we h

Over the years we each develop a particular blend of strategies designed to hide our flaws and compensate for what we believe is wrong with us.

and how to close the gap between who you really are in your inner, private world and how you appear in the outer, social world.

The Buddha taught that our fear is great, but greater still is the truth of our connectedness.