RE: Dealing with people who are not interested

["Kirsch, Jeffrey" <jkirsch@edaflow.com>]

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From: Vic Forte [mailto:vic@vichara.f9.co.uk]

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What does "metanoia" mean? I have just looked it up in the shorter
oxford dictionery ( that's the one with two volumes ) and can't find
it.

Best Wishes,
Vic Forte, vic@vichara.f9.co.uk
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I know this one!

Peter Senge writes of metanoia in "The Fifth Discipline", pages 13-14 of the
paperback edition.

I'll pick out the "good stuff" below:

"It is a word we have used in our work with organizations for the past
several years, but we always caution them, and ourselves, to use it
sparingly in public. The word is "metanoia" and it means a shift of mind.
The word has a rich history. For the Greeks, it meant a fundamental shift or
change, or more literally, transcendence ("meta" - above and beyond, as in
"metaphysics") of mind ("noia," from the root "nous," of mind). In  the
early (Gnostic) Christian tradition, it took on a special meaning of
awakening shared intuition and direct knowing of the highest, of God. ...

And a little later:

"To grasp the meaning of "metanoia" is to grasp the deeper meaning of
"learning," for learning also involves a fundamental shift or movement of
mind."

Senge goes into more detail here, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the
reader :-).

Jeffrey Kirsch
Customer Service Manager
edaflow Corporation
770-261-2959
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