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Margaret
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Everyone sees the same lights, but from each position the straight line appeared so different. I see in those lights, the hundreds of different explanations of beliefs that people have about the exact same fact, the millions of explanations
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“The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.”
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“Myth 2: Leadership is about individuals. In fact, leadership is a distributed or collective capacity in a system, not just something that individuals do. Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.”
― Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
― Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
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“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
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what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
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“People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
Source: The Wisdom of Heschel”
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Source: The Wisdom of Heschel”
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