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Michel Foucault and Jorge Borges sit down to lunch together.
Jorge:  "Michel, there is a fly in my soup!"
Michel: " Jorge, you'll just have to reorder."
Jorge:  "Ah, fly soup. Delicious!"

i have found myself separate from my thoughts when i am listening authentically!  very cool.  i now have a totally different perspective on people watching.  Instead of just wondering about their daily lives i am wondering about what they care about and what really matters to them.   i also realize that in being human there is always SOMETHING people care about - although it may be radically different they still care!

The more or less choice

This time of the year makes me think of family, friends and relationships. It is the time of year for me then everything is going great or horrible. I did my Wisdom course this November in NOLA, New Orleans, and discovered I am a drama queen. I recently had a conversation with a gentleman I thought I was dating. When I asked if he was pursuing me in hopes of creating a relationship leading to a long term commitment he said "NO. That's not how I see you". (OK, Actually it was a text but you…

Hello Fellow Wisdom Grads

2 weeks ago I committed to the Cancun Vacation Course.  It wasnt something I thought possible prior to this.  Ive never travelled over seas and ive decided, "its my turn".  Im really looking forward to meeting you all and hoepfully getting to know more about you through this blog before the year is out and we meet in person. I cant wait to meet my room mate to whom we will share a fabulous double room on the coast of the Caribbean. Excitement runs…

A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke. All laughed like crazy. After a moment he cracked the same joke again and a little less people laughed this time. He cracked the same joke again & again, when there was no laughter in the crowd, he smiled and said, “If you can’t laugh on the same joke again & again, then why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over again”

Hi Wisdom family,

I am going to work as a therapist at an Army base near Frankfurt/Wurzburg, Germany in December for two months. I know no one in Germany and am looking for contacts. If you know anyone in Germany, please let me know.

I am excited about this new position as will keep you posted. For the past five months I have been working as a therapist in Colorado Springs at Ft Carson. I am enjoying this work and would love to share about it with you,…

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."

  ---Willy Wonka

Maybe our approach is all wrong. Perhaps problems get resolved effectively on a playground. Let's try this~ Abandon the trappings of the board room and get back to the sand box. Leave the wingtips and suit home and put on a pair of sneakers, shorts and a t-shirt. Then let the solutions bubble to the top and stun people back to balance.

‎"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

‎"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the…

What do World Wide Wrestling, toddlers, and the Conference for Global Transformation all have in common?

Mirror neurons.

Mirror neurons are defined in the Wikipedia as,

“A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and…

i am reading a book by Humberto Maturana entitled " The Origins of Humaness in the Biology of Love" and i am seeing that it is one of the most important books that i have ever read. How wonderful to discover something of that caliber and to realize it.

So naturally, i must share it. Chapter One is a bit academic and can be skipped and chapter two entitled, "Human Origins" present the ideas in clear simple english and they revise Darwin ideas about evolution from the fame of the…

The Daddy Jar

It was a dark and stormy night.   No, really, it was.  What do you want me to lie about it just because it's a cliché? It's not like…

The following appeared atop the Courier-Journal's Editorial page on Thursday, May 26, 2011

"What is past cannot be rewritten, but it is within our power to rewrite the future"

Catherine (the Great) II, Czarina of Russia (1729 - 1796)

That's got a Landmark ring to it, doncha think?!

This video is twin baby boy dialog at its finest!  I especially like the jokes the twin on the left tells...they're obviously funny by the way his brother laughs.  Self Expression... Play... Laughter... Connection... Relatedness... more? 

I remember as a child being taught that it was very important to be kind.

As I neared school-age, the importance of kindness was impressed ever and ever more urgently upon me. Being a youngster, I don’t think I really understood what kindness was, but I knew it was sort of like being nice (pleasant, agreeable).  So – especially when adults were around – I made a point to try to be ‘nice.’ Perhaps not as fake as…