Passion, Beliefs & Needs - 3 views
"From within the box, passions, beliefs, and personal needs seem to divide us. When we get out of the box, however, we learn that this has been a lie. Our passions, beliefs, and needs do not divi...
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"From within the box, passions, beliefs, and personal needs seem to divide us. When we get out of the box, however, we learn that this has been a lie. Our passions, beliefs, and needs do not divi...
Wow! Gandhi- Management Guru! Excellent!!!
We invite from others what we ourselves are. This is our influence. Blame provokes blame. Generosity invites generosity." (The Arbinger Institute)
I agree this is both profound and a challenge. I love this one!
"Forgoing the taking of offense is an achievement of the one who forgoes; he or she extends it to all, including those nearest by. It cannot depend upon what others do, or else it is not genuine f...
Are others fully real to us? "What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded reservedly." (George Sa...
"The more mature a soul, the less it blames others." (Toba Beta)
"And why are we your primary concern?" Lou asked pointedly. "Because you don't think you should be," Avi answered. (The Anatomy of Peace) Where is the blindness in my own life?
"If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable ...
"The truth that matters is not that others have mistreated me - perhaps they have ... The truth that matters is that I have mistreated others." (C. Terry Warner)
"I was excited when I first encountered Arbinger", said Chip Huth, SWAT Squad 1910 Sergeant, "because I thought I finally understood what was wrong with everybody else - why everyone was such a pro...
Agreed! Beautiful in its simplicity!
"The learning level of the pyramid keeps inviting us toward humility. It reminds us that the person or group we wish would change may not be the only one who needs to change! It continually invit...
"Betraying myself, I invite in others the very behavior I say I hate in them. And betraying themselves, they invite the very behavior they say they hate in me. We cooperate in condemning ourselve...
If that's true - what needs to change?
Once we have that out-of-the-box space (a person, an event, a memory of a person, a place) we can use it to take a new perspective on our current "all hell is breaking loose" perspective.
For me, it's a realization that I am out of the box if I have the desire to help/intercede/serve. If I cannot in that moment help it doesn't change my desire to help. Once I have that desire I am...
Okay so let's assume that you've now discovered an out-of-the box place. What do you do then? Perhaps you begin to think about the situation differently by asking yourself a series of questions: ...
"The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while ...
"Each time you find you're getting stuck, whether at work or in your family, you'll again have to find an out-of-the-box place just as we have found one together here, and then you'll have to get ...