Compassion & Sense of Beauty LO14866

Richard C. Holloway (learnshops@thresholds.com)
Sun, 07 Sep 1997 11:21:33 -0700

Replying to LO14862 --

John Zavacki wrote:
>---snip---

> I think this thread is a breakthrough thread for the list. It is, for me, a
> starting point for a dialogue on the essence of systems and the essence of
> man's meaning: relationships. No man can have the same mind twice, and no
> list can survive without breakthrough.
>
> Senge quoted Deming at the Annual Quality Congress of ASQ(at that time)C in
> Boston a few years ago. Deming was responding to a question from the
> audience, to whit: "How long do we have to make the transformation?" Deming
> replied: "As long as you live. No longer."

>---snip---

> It is an infinite journey and we have the honor of
> being the first group in modern history to make it as a team with no regard
> for the space element of the space-time continuum. We are at one and the
> same time everywhere on our small planet. This is most amazing.
>

thank you, John--and all of you who have added to this thread. I've
appreciated your thoughts very much.

I, too, have been following this trail for much of my life--with frequent
and long detours. It seems we are arriving at a point in our history when
many, seemingly diverse and varied, disciplines are converging. This
integration of spirituality, learning, sciences, work, ecology and life
seems to sing to the intuitive soul.

I ran across this site the other day, while mulling over your postings on
this thread. You might find it interesting to compare the article (it's
called "beginnings and endings: the Buddhist mythos of the arising and
passing away of the world) with some of the things we've been discussing
here.

<http://www.changesurfer.com/Bud/Begin.html>

regards,

-- 
"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great
machine."
	-James Jeans


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