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The moment you put things into a concept, they stop flowing; they become static, dead. A frozen wave is not a wave. A wave is essentially movement, action; when you freeze it, it is not a wave. Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows. Finally, if we are to believe the mystics (and it doesn’t take too much of an effort to understand this, or even believe it, but no one can see it at once), reality is whole, but words and concepts fragment reality.
Awareness
Anthony De Mello and J. Francis Stroud
A lot of things we reserve for relationships are available elsewhere. For example, there’s a tragic misalignment of the hierarchy of friendships and relationships. It’s odd how we’ve relegated friendship so far down the line. It hasn’t always been this way: in early-nineteenth-century Germany having a good friend was seen as more important than having a lover, and much closer to the roots of happiness.
Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn
THE COMPANY’S HIRING METHODS are just one component of the Nvidia Way. Its emphasis on retention is another. Jensen rewards performance by using stock grants, which are distributed on the basis of how important an employee is considered to the company. “Jensen looks at stock like his blood,” said former head of human resources John McSorley. “He pores over the stock-allocation reports.”
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