Where wisdom fuels change
Posted in Change & Growth, Meaningful Relationships, Protecting our Power on Mar 27th, 2008
I skimmed this book awhile back – Radical Collaboration by James Tamm and Ronald Luyet — and found some great quotes I would like to share. I have been bitten by the defensiveness bug myself and have worked with people under its influence as well. I find that these insights give a whole [...]
Posted in Change & Growth, Meaningful Relationships, Protecting our Power on Mar 26th, 2008
Another Tao Te Ching passage that has me thinking these days is number 68. This chapter is about non-striving and non-contenting, even in what are normally adversarial situations. The passage reads:
A good soldier is never aggressive;
A good fighter is never angry.
The best way of conquering an enemy
Is to win him over by not antagonizing him.
The [...]
Posted in Internal wisdom on Feb 21st, 2008
I am going through a big change in my life at this sage age of 48, and you are invited to take the journey with me via this blog.
Until now, I led a life of pushing myself by sheer will power; by driving myself with the urgings of perfectionism and my family’s culture of [...]