"He was all sail and no ballast."
- read in "History of New York City" by Rutherford
comments The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
3.30.2012 Enjoying yourself through appreciation and wonder is deeper and better than trying to accomplish feelings of satisfaction through self-affirming ego-boosts of material processions. Blaine
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.”
my note- (based on a Dee Hock quote) when one has come to a thing in his own time, in his own way, for his own reasons, he will comply in a thousand ways that coercion could never compel.
The Hock quote was: People must come to things in their own time, in their own way, for their own reasons, or they never truly come at all.
3.10.2012 doing HR has adjusted my self-concept or rather given me new insights. There is something about this learning that is so desirable. . . the idea that more truth has been discovered. Truth is so alluring.
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
3.2012 Heard on the radio, a Catholic educator on Kresta...." We have to manage to an outcome we seek." (Made me think about building ITW and wanting to do it in a way that leaves us with something that feels right in the end.)
We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong.
1.2012 from Mockingbird by Hafid Bouazza - "would have been spared much, but retained nothing."
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