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I loved this book. It was inspirational and packed foul of lessons that if applied could make a profound difference in our youths lives. I have been teaching police interaction with juveniles this year and this book I now recommend as must reading fo
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The Warriors were underwater and had been for many years—with more than double the number of losses (56) as wins (26) in their most recent season—a 31.7 percent winning percentage.
“In spite of its undeniable power, so many leaders struggle to embrace organizational health (which I’ll be defining shortly) because they quietly believe they are too sophisticated, too busy, or too analytical to bother with it. In other words, they think it’s beneath them.”
― The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
― The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
“Contemplative prayer is a deepening of faith that moves beyond thoughts and concepts. One just listens to God, open and receptive to the divine presence in one’s inmost being as its source. One listens not with a view to hearing something, but with a view to becoming aware of the obstacles to one’s friendship with God.”
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
“The false self is looking for fame, power, wealth, and prestige. The unconscious is very powerful until the divine light of the Holy Spirit penetrates to its depths and reveals its dynamics. Here is where the great teaching of the dark nights of St. John of the Cross corresponds to depth psychology, only the work of the Holy Spirit goes far deeper. Instead of trying to free us from what interferes with our ordinary human life, the Spirit calls us to transformation of our inmost being, and indeed of all our faculties, into the divine way of being and acting.”
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
“As Edward O. Wilson says, “In our daily lives we imagine ourselves to be aware of everything in the immediate environment. In fact, we sense fewer than one thousandth of one percent of the diversity of molecules and energy waves that constantly sweep around and through us.”
― Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change
― Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change
“How should we handle these afflictive emotions? By facing them, by feeling them. Feelings that have been repressed have to be allowed to pass through our awareness once again in order to be left behind for good. Most of the time, they don’t need psychotherapy; they just need to be evacuated. We might say that we are suffering from acute psychic indigestion, a nausea of a psychological character that is interfering with our mental health and all our relationships.”
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
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