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We all believe that the world is a place of beauty, harmony, and love. We also know that it is a place of confusion and discontent, contention and conflict, failure and sorrow. Life acquaints us not only with goodness but with
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“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
“All human history is under the influence of the false-self system that easily moves from our hearts into our families, communities, and nations and then afflicts the whole human race. God invites us to take responsibility for being human and to open ourselves to the unconscious damage that is influencing our decisions and relationships.”
― 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
“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
“Through pursuing the path with friends and the promptings of life, I began to see that my way forward was through the conscious development of qualities born from what I understood as “heart,” such as care and compassion, and replacing judgmental reactiveness with more kindness.”
― Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart
― Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart
Boyd & Beyond
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A reading group for the admirers of the ideas and legacy of John Boyd ranging from military and police to business and government professionals.
Q & A with Detective Ken Lang
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Dr. Ken Lang is a retired detective from the Baltimore County Police Department. During his tenure, he spent 15 years investigating violent crimes, in ...more
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