Learning Organisation

Learning organisations are possible because, deep down, we are all learners. No one has to teach an infant to learn.In fact no one has to teach infants anything. They are intrinsically inquisitive, masterful learnerswho learn to walk, speak, and pretty much run their households all on their own.Learning organisations are possible because not only is it in our nature to learn but we love to learn. Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great team, a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way - who trusted one another, who complemented one another's strengths and compensated for one another's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than individual goals, and who produced extraordinary results. I have met people who have experienced this sort of profound teamwork - in sports , or in performing arts, or in business.Many say that they have spent much of their life looking for that experience again.What they experienced was a learning organisation.The team that became great did not start off great - it learned how to produce extraordinary results.

DEATH

You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death , open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one , even as the river and the sea are one.
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Reason and Passion

Your reason and your passion are your rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

If either your sails or your rudder be broken , you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid - seas.

For reason , ruling alone , is a force confining; and passion , unattended , is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Therefoe , let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion , that it may sing;

And let it direct your passionwith reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Joy and Sorrow

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

GIVING

You often say ,"I would give but only to the deserving"
The trees in your ochard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Surely he who is worthy to recieve his days and his nights , is worthy of all else from you.
And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.
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NOW

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life.It is recognising what is primary .then you can deal with what is secondary with great ease. It is not saying , "I'm not dealing with things anymore because there is only the Now". No. Find what is primary first and make the Now into your friend, not your enemy.Acknowledge it, honor it . When the Now is the foundation and primary focus of your life , then your life unfolds with ease.

This Moment

This one moment - Now - is the only thing you can never escape from, the one constant factor in your life.No matter what happens , no matter how much your life changes , one thing is certain ; it's always Now.
Since there is no excape from Now , why not welcome it, become friendly with it?
When you make friends with the present moment , you feel at home no matter where you are.When you don't feel at home in the Now , no matter where you go , you will carry unease with you.