Today I'd like to talk about the health of the U.S.: I am sorry to report this but the United States is a sick country, and one that knows nothing about what health and healing truly is. Its medical system is highly flawed, in danger of collapse and is primarily a sick-care system. The U.S. spends twice as much on health care per capita than any other country, yet people are twice as sick due to the high rates of chronic disease: 75% of all … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 6/19/13
“No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.”
… [Read more...]Quote of the Day: 6/7/13 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!" - Henri-Frédéric Amiel … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 5/17/13 – George Santayana
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "Only the dead have seen the end of war." "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." "A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." - George Santayana … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 4/23/13 – Peter Drucker
"Every few hundred years in western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions - rearranges itself... We are currently living through such a time." - Peter Drucker … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 4/20/13 – Don Beck
“Evolution and revolution are part of our nature. Many believe we are passing through such a momentous transformation, a major turning point, a history-making sea change. A new and entirely different pattern of thought is beginning to emerge worldwide and in various fields of human activity.” – Dr. Don Beck … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 4/9/13 – Jiddu Krishnamurti
"All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man." - Jiddu Krishnamurti … [Read more...]
Towards an Open Future
“There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics, I refer to the infinite.” – Jorge Luis Borges, in Avatars of the Tortoise Let's start with a basic supposition: open systems succeed, while closed systems fail. What do I mean by a system? A system is anything comprised of complexity: it can be one single individual or a group, forming a collective or organization. An … [Read more...]