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Am 04.12.2003 15:53 Uhr schrieb "chris weaver" unter <chris@springbranch.net>:<BR>
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</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Arial">...to me the list is a river rather than a road. A river has its own life, and a powerful river is beyond any human efforts at engineering. Yet a river is supremely receptive. As Sheila Chandra sings, "the Ocean refuses no river -" and the river does not refuse its tributaries...the tributaries are received...and then the opposite pattern unfurls, as the river divides into a delta, with separate, more-focused streams spinning out their own fractals...?<BR>
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</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Arial">.dear all,<BR>
I´ve spent wonderfull two hours to refollow this discussion<BR>
which started about the question of a »cynic« about »outcomes«.<BR>
I like the metaphor of the river and I like the idea of understanding <BR>
the socalled dissonance in music by adding more voices.<BR>
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please let me add a tributary to the long river of this discussion:<BR>
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after all I would like to change only one letter in one of the most used words<BR>
in this discussion: it is the word »NEW« which I want to change to the word »NOW«.<BR>
harrisons booktitle »expanding the now« let me deepen the insight and my experience<BR>
that there is never something new which isn`t already growing in the flow just now.<BR>
in my practice of facilitating change I try to avoid intention in favor of extension,<BR>
I try to avoid moving ahead in favor of staying and listening, I try to slow down change<BR>
in favor of getting aware that change took already place, I try to avoid looking forward<BR>
in favor of looking down to the tiny distance between the just passed step and the <BR>
not yet done but unevitably coming next step (which is not the future but the following now).<BR>
thinking about new ideas, about a new world, about new stories, about new methods<BR>
pulls me away from the NOW which is the only existing space to serve in.<BR>
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