Life Quote by Edwin H. Friedman

““the extent we function and grow within the context of our own souls (a lifetime project) and abet the emergence of our own selves (by a willingness to face life's challenges and oneself), our spirituality and our tradition will spring naturally from our being.””

Edwin H. Friedman

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“By the term regression I mean to convey something far more profound than a mere loss of progress. Societal regression is about the perversion…

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“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend…

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“The focus on “need fulfillment” that so often accompanies an emphasis on empathy leaves out the possibility that what another may really “need” (in…

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“Although the social science construction of reality tends to emphasize how families differ from one another, I began to see that knowledge of what…

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“It was then, after my presentations to thirty-two generals, that I first began to see how similar the approach to leadership problems was throughout…

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“Those five characteristics are: 1. Reactivity: the vicious cycle of intense reactions of each member to events and to one another. 2. Herding: a…

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“Chronic anxiety is systemic; it is deeper and more embracing than community nervousness. Rather than something that resides within the psyche of each one,…

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“In 1970, an experiment was conducted in a French laboratory in which two organisms from the same species that had not developed immune systems…

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“The second attribute of imaginatively gridlocked relationship systems is a continual search for new answers to old questions rather than an effort to reframe…

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