<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In a nondual view, all energy is spirit, and the universe bears paying attention to, but it will not offer guidance, only grace.<div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 24, 2011, at 12:22 PM, <a href="mailto:amistadasc@aol.com">amistadasc@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" size="5" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sometimes there is energy that just explodes and other times the energy has a direction influenced by spirit - I prefer the latter.
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There are lots of forms of "energy" that pass through the "membranes" of companies besides just money! People and their passions are one.
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<div>On Sep 24, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Skye Hirst wrote:</div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks Arthur - reminds me of the thoughts of Arie deGeus in his book on "The Living Company" who studied what makes companies last beyond 40 years.</span></div>
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<div>He makes an analogy between oxygen for living organisms and money for companies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> "</span>To support life, we need oxygen to breath; but breathing oxygen is not our purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Similarly to support continued operation, companies need to make money and profit; but that is not their purpose. When it is made their purpose they become money machines; rigid mechanisms unable to adapt and learn."</div>
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