[OSList] Follow-Up and Flow in Open Space

[paul levy]

Koos, why let go of it - why not open space for it ?

On Tuesday, 26 March 2013, Koos de Heer wrote:

> Hi Gijs,****
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> I am not familiar with this, but I would love to disuss this when we meet
> on May 6. Anyone in or near The Netherlands at the time: email me for
> details of the Stammtisch.****
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> I can also see a person not filing each day away carefully, but letting go
> of it and living completely in the now. Maybe that is even more open.****
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> Koos****
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> *Van:* oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org');> [mailto:
> oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org');>] *Namens *Gijs Mega
> *Verzonden:* dinsdag 26 maart 2013 04:11
> *Aan:* oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'oslist at lists.openspacetech.org');>; mmpannwitz at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'mmpannwitz at gmail.com');>
> *Onderwerp:* Re: [OSList] Follow-Up and Flow in Open Space****
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> "The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his
> wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner each
> passing day.****
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> On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively in
> like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it
> neatly and carefully away with it's predecessors, after first having jotted
> down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on
> all the richness set down in these notes, on the life he has already lived
> to the fullest." ****
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> Doesn't the latter person keeps the space open, whereas the first ones
> closes it down?****
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> A quote that I read in Viktor E Frankl's, man's search for meaning, while
> Paul addressed putting action planning at the beginning and subsequently a
> dialogue about past, present and future.****
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> It was first published over 50 years ago, so many will have read it.****
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> Frankl's LogoTherapy, making people fully aware of their own
> responsibilities, I find fascinating.****
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> Does anyone in The Netherlands have more on this? I will visit NL end of
> April, early May. Possibly good stuff for the Stammtisch on May 6 ....****
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> Gijs****
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> From Shanghai****
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> Send from iPad****
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> On Mar 26, 2013, at 10:43 AM, GijsVanWezel <gijsvanwezel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Send from iPad****
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> Begin forwarded message:****
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> *From:* Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>
> *Date:* March 25, 2013 7:19:45 PM GMT+08:00
> *To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
> *Subject:* *Re: [OSList] Follow-Up and Flow in Open Space*
> *Reply-To:* mmpannwitz at gmail.com, World wide Open Space Technology email
> list <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>****
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> Once upon a time, a monk left his monastery for a walk and settled under a
> shady tree to read his favorite novel. As he sat there he was completely
> enthralled by a bird singing his very best song. When the bird flew off,
> Peter, thats this monks name, closed his book and strolled back to his
> monastery. On knocking, the door opened and a brother he had not seen asked
> him what he wanted. Peter answered, that he was Peter and just returned
> from a short walk. The fellow that opened let him know that there was no
> Peter in the monastery. Peter insisted to be let in so the brother called
> the Prior who, upon thinking a bit, did remember a story of a Peter that
> left the monastery for a short walk 300 years ago and never showed up again.
> Here you have a fat NOW, a birds song of a couple of minutes expanding
> into 300 years. Plenty of NOW in this now with loads of past and future.
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> Greetings from bright sunshine in Berlin with icy winds, still.
> mmp
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> On 24.03.2013 23:28, Harrison Owen wrote:
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> It is only a manner of speaking. If your NOW is big enough it includes****
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> what we (used to) call Past and Future. So how is that for esoterica
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