Joseph Jaworski Quotes

• Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately leadership is about creating new realities.

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  Motivational, Reality, Creating

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.3, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.

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  Perception, World, Fields

  Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.109, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, not ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose and at least tried to make a difference in this world.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Differences, People

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.34, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• To think that the world can ever change without changes in our mental models is folly.

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  Change, Thinking, World

  Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.10, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

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  Motivational, Essence, Reaching

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.80, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• When we are in the process of creating something, we must have flexibility of mind to move with what needs to be done. What allows this to happen is precisely the fact that we're not attached to how things should be done.

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  Moving, Creating, Mind

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.124, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The only real way to develop strategy is to use a process where one goes to ‘primary knowing,’ tapping into source and then listening deeply, moment to moment as the path unfolds—walking the path as it is created.

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  Real, Knowing, Listening

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• We only make the mistakes that we have to make to learn what we're here to learn right now.

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  Motivational, Mistake, Right Now

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.

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  Motivational, Crush, Creative

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.46, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible.

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  Thinking, Mind, Way

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.82, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. In climbing, take careful note of the difficulties along your way; for as you go up , you can observe them. Coming down, you will no longer see them, but you will know they are there if you have observed them well.

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  Motivational, Climbing, Forever

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.106, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The only way I can experience my life as meaningless is to work as hard as I possibly can to tell myself it has no meaning. At a deeper level of reality, my life can't help but have meaning, because everything is continually unfolding, and I am connected into that unfolding in ways that I can't even imagine.

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  Motivational, Reality, Levels

  Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.11, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing is fixed, and yet perceive a world of 'fixedness.' But once we start to see reality more as it is, we realize that nothing is permanent, so how could the future be fixed? How could we live in anything but a world of continual possibility? The realization allows us to feel more alive.

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  Motivational, Reality, Realization

  Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.11, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Part of the magic of the experience lay in the sheer beauty of the setting: the breathtaking sight of the high mountains, the sweep of the sky, the panorama of the great valley. The beauty drives you out of the self for a moment - so that for this time, the self is not.

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  Motivational, Sky, Sight

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.103, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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