http://nirvanacable.com sometimes a unicorn in a balloon factory is... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:17:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Reading, Tribes, We Need You to Lead Us, has stopped my shallow breathing! Finally realized through reading Tribes that no one leads a project, they lead people. Or not. Apparently Seth wanted to name his book, A Unicorn in a Balloon Factory. Thanks to Seth's book, I'm finally fully embracing that I am, ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/40 Astonishing what happens when self-proclaimed "poor" people examine their thinking! Complete tear jerker when people realize their "I am poor" belief has kept them in bondage for decades. http://nirvanacable.com/archives/41 My friend and colleague, Lynne Twist, in her book, The Soul of Money [p 237], shares about a time Buckminster Fuller came to dinner: During this pivotal time Bucky was central to my life and work, and one night we were honored to have him come to dinner at our house. ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/39 ...[Oscar Wilde] If ending poverty is tied to a consistent level of GDP growth, it follows that ending poverty is a time-bound pursuit. To figure out timeframes for ending poverty, development experts often use a mathematical equation, a country's expected percentage annual GDP growth times number years at anticipated percentage annual ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/32 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:46:58 +0300 From: "aristarchus munish" To: Nirvana Cable Subject: Just a few Thoughts Hallo, Hope you (and Sussie) had a restful weekend. Mine was restful but rather thoughtful. I have had an opportunity to reflect on our 3 week or so time together. ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/31 Susie and I arrived Friday morning after a 14-hour journey due to flight delays. Nairobi is 5000 feet, same as Denver. The fatigue of traveling combined with the high altitude did us in. We slept most of the day and night only rallying enough to meet with ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/30 I adore this story of the creative process/presencing from a blog of the the NY Times : April 29, 2008, 7:02 pm Don’t Fact-Check the Soul By ROSANNE CASH Apart from “which comes first, the music or the lyrics,” the question I am most often asked (mostly by music journalists) is whether it ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/28 For the past two days, I attended a Byron Katie workshop with my family. Through Katie's process anyone can trace unhappiness to its source and eliminate it there. After all, this is what nirvana is all about... Katie not only shows us that all the problems in the world ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/26 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:05:20 +0300 From: "aristarchus munish" To: nirvana@yes-us.net Subject: Hallo Hallo Nirvana, I'm humbled to get this opportunity to know how you are faring. Hope all is well with you, your family, Sussie, Peggy and the rest. Back here I'm well. You might have wondered why I'm not been ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/25 What in the world is happening to me? Who knew that checking a silly box on a 3"x 5" enrollment card could cause such upheaval?... During a four-hour presentation on the cause of world hunger, I committed to change the global mindset that allows hunger to persist. I realized that changing the ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/18