Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole

[Wendy Farmer-O'Neil]

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> Circles of Belonging, Doug.
> Don't we feel most alive when we know we are truly significant?   
> That our existence matters essentially to another?  We can only see  
> that truly reflected in the eyes of our community.
> Explains modern existential angst.  Without true community and a way  
> to find our place in it--we find life deadened, numbing,  
> meaningless.  Same is mirrored in organizations.  We have largely  
> managed (all puns intended) to engineer an inhuman context for  
> ourselves.
>
> Re-membering and re-claiming the skills and patterns of connecting  
> to the whole is a vital process for our future.  We will know we  
> have arrived when, as Harrison has recently pointed out, OST is just  
> one of the ways we do things.  I believe the deep inner resonance  
> for this sense of one's place in the whole is what many people  
> experience and enjoy about open space.
>
> thanks for all these great quotes.  I've wanted to read his work for  
> so long.  This is a real treat.
>
> hugs,
> Wendy
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> On 11-Jun-09, at 8:04 PM, douglas germann wrote:
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>> Hi--
>>
>> Another evocative piece from Christopher Alexander:
>>
>> It is their presence in the whole, and the fact that they are  
>> helping the life of the whole, which gives them their individual  
>> life....Italics in original. Christopher Alexander, The Nature of  
>> Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and The Nature of the  
>> Universe, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life, p 431
>>
>> What I am seeing here as an inside-out truth, is that in a group we  
>> do not lend the group our individual life, it goes somewhat the  
>> other way round about. What gives us our individual existence and  
>> life is our presence in the group, our helping of the group; in  
>> turn the others helping the group give us life. We intensify each  
>> other.
>>
>> Can this be true?
>>
>> :- Doug.
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> Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
> CEO Prospera Consulting
> wendy at xe.net
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> The moment of change is the only poem. -- Adrienne Rich
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Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
CEO Prospera Consulting
wendy at xe.net
1-800-713-2351

The moment of change is the only poem. -- Adrienne Rich





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