Writings
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If an organisation malfunctions, i.e. fails to address the reasonable needs of all those within it, one approach is to reform it. This assumes that those within it, whose needs are being met, wish to do so and co-operate in the process. But, first of all, they have to feel the need for this. If…
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When listening shifts to hearing, our attention moves from what we are listening to, to the act of hearing. Our attention is no longer directed towards the music, as an external sensory ‘object’, but towards the act of hearing. When listening, all we have is the music we are listening to. In hearing, the whole…
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We believe we listen to music. How often do we realise that music is listening to us? Music so wishes to be heard that it persists and endures impossible conditions in order to enter our world. But Music, in its nature, is not permitted to shout: music is not allowed to drown out our babbling…
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Dear Crafty, An Exterior Architecture is the pattern of all forms of our functioning:doing, thinking, feeling; manifested personally and in community.It is pretty much what-we-are. This is necessary. This is how we act in life, and how the world sees us. A conventional “Work” formulation is along the lines:In life, externally play a role.Internally, not…
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Making a new world. What is a new world? Doing things, taking positive initiatives and actions. That’s for doers. Another way is by changing an attitude: we accept a person we have consistently rejected / not accepted. In this change of attitude, the world has changed. How we think of the world: if we change…
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At the beginning of lunch, the Kitchen Co-ordinator asked for the nasty, horrid fluorescent lights in the dining room to be switched on. I asked that they be immediately switched off. They were not necessary: daylight with blue sky and sunshine provided more than a sufficiency of light; and they cast a nasty, horrid shine…
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This has just flown off to an industry person with an interest in a period of my professional life. As usually the case, despair was never far away, and my personal life in disarray. The industry person expressed apologies for asking questions about this; without being aware of the distress involved… One of the features…
