Monthly Archives: October 2008

Amazing how many things we do for no good reason

So I'm writing a book, and after explaining what the book is about to a good friend, he asks me why am I writing it?  I gave the obvious answer of course, "Because I've always wanted to write a book."  And then comes the predictable question, "Why?" And then my mind produces a deluge of possible ...

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Breakthrough in being with another’s POV

The other day I was having a drink with a good friend of mine and he began to relate his impression of one of the political candidates in the upcoming election.  To say that his view was completely at odds with my own is to put it mildly.  What was really interesting though was that ...

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Context for the “Space”

I posted before about our ability to create a space between stimulus and response. This is of course not Nobel Prize submission material, yet it's one of those truisms that is so often taken for granted. What I want to say here is that a practice of creating that Space will be a ...

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“Something’s Wrong”

The other day a friend of mine called me to share that he had a huge breakthrough while sitting on the can.  He thought that last bit of detail essential to his story.  (smile) The breakthrough that he had during his biological "functioning" was that he was automatically and unconsciously coming from "Something's wrong." From his personal, ...

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