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Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
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Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
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Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others
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A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
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Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
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Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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