The Different Drum: Community Making and PeaceSimon and Schuster, 11. maj 2010 - 336 strani 'The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another...' Although we have developed the technology to make communication more efficent and to bring people closer together, we have failed to use it to build a true global community. Dr M. Scott Peck believes that if we are to prevent civilization destroying itself, we must urgently rebuild on all levels, local, national and international and that is the first step to spiritual survival. In this radical and challenging book, he describes how the communities work, how group action can be developed on the principles of tolerance and love, and how we can start to transform world society into a true community. |
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Individuals and the Fallacy of Rugged | 53 |
CHAPTER in The True Meaning of Community | 59 |
The Genesis of Community | 77 |
Stages of CommunityMaking | 86 |
Further Dynamics of Community 707 | 107 |
Community Maintenance | 136 |
Patterns of Transformation | 186 |
Emptiness | 209 |
Vulnerability | 226 |
Integration and Integrity | 234 |
Healthy or Sick? The Christian Church in the United | 257 |
The Heresy of the Church The Church as Battleground Signs of Hope The United States Government Balance of Power or Chaos? The Unreality of t... | 292 |
Postscript | 331 |
The Bridge | 165 |
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Stran 24 - We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together: always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.
Stran 204 - Within my earthly temple there's a crowd, There's one of us that's humble, one that's proud. There's one that's broken-hearted for his sins, And one that unrepentant sits and grins. There's one that loves his neighbor as himself, And one that cares for naught but fame and pelf. From much corroding care I should be free If I could once determine which is ME.
Stran 57 - If we are going to use the word meaningfully we must restrict it to a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others
Stran 258 - I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Stran 333 - NYS and NYC, residents please add appropriate sales tax). Send check or money order—no cash or COD's please. Allow up to six weeks for delivery.
Stran 18 - York that has had all symbols of particular religions removed. There is nothing there but some rows of chairs, a potted plant, and a shaft of light. Marya Mannes writes of this room: "It seemed to me standing there that this nothingness was so oppressive and disturbing that it became a sort of madness, and the room a sort of padded cell. It seemed to me that the core of our greatest contemporary trouble lay here, that all this whiteness and shapelessness and weakness was the leukemia of non-commitment,...
Stran 229 - The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
Stran 63 - Meekness in itself is nought else, but a true knowing and feeling of a man's self as he is. For surely whoso might verily see and feel himself as he is, he should verily be meek.
Stran 218 - He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me.