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#1

“The Manual teaches the operation partly by being produced through the operation.”
― John Stack IV

tags: footprints, invitational-facilitation, pedagogy, perspectives, temporal-engineering, the-good-work, the-manual, wisdom, wisdom-nuggets

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#2

“A Facilitator need not become the Subject.”
― John Stack IV

tags: custodian, epistemology, facilitator, giving, ontology, pedagogy, temporal-engineering, the-good-work, wisdom

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#3

“Artifact first; interpretation second.
Preserve the object before improving the story.”
― John Stack IV

tags: artifact, critical-thinking, epistemology, interpretation, ontology, pedagogy, perspectives, the-good-work, wisdom

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#4

“The Metronome Principle:
The constancy of an inquiry resides not in constancy of conclusion, but in constancy of method. Observation may change the hypothesis; contradiction may change the model; new evidence may reopen a conclusion previously considered settled. The rhythm remains: distinguish observation from interpretation, interpretation from inference, inference from evidence, and evidence from proof. Preserve provenance. Seek counterexamples. Permit falsification. Revise without erasing the path by which revision became necessary.”
― John Stack IV

tags: inquiry, pedagogy, perspectives, principles, temporal-engineering, the-good-work, the-good-work-collaborative, wisdom

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#5

“Pleasure vociferates more than Wisdom.”
― John Stack IV

tags: hedonism

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#6

“The more places you dig, the more chances of finding gold.”
― John Stack IV

tags: industry

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#7

“We are silly creatures who are quite prejudiced against others merely since we do not share the same thoughts...or thought processes, for that matter.
Can you imagine the look of pure madness in the man's eyes who first spotted a lobster scurrying about and thought to himself, I want to put that in my mouth," or the look of sheer horror on the faces of those who witnessed the act?”
― John Stack IV

tags: different-perspective

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#8

“Being right, and being happy, are not always the same thing. How many times do we find ourselves right, and very upset about it?... just as many times as we find ourselves wrong, and very happy about that.”
― John Stack IV

tags: right-and-wrong

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#9

“An open mouth is an invitation.”
― John Stack IV

tags: adage, hedonismnism

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#10

“When a desired path is unavoidable, preserves the goal and change the route rather than falsifying the capability.”
― John Stack IV

tags: altruism, epistemology, footprints, ontology, orientation-change, perspectives, temporal-engineering, the-good-work, wisdom, wisdom-nuggets

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#11

“A Facilitator who understands Timing, Language, Sequence, Attention, Perspective, and Restraint can alter enormously what Becomes Possible.”
― John Stack IV

tags: facilitator, footprints, pedagogy, perspectives, sequence, temporal-engineering, the-good-work, time, wisdom

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#12

“The Good Work does not come with a dollar sign. A price asks, "What can I receive for this?" The Good Work asks, "What can this give?”
― John Stack IV

tags: altruism, altruism-quotes, generosity, generosity-of-spirit, generosity-quotes, philanthropy, philanthropy-quotes, the-good-work, wisdom, wisdom-nuggets

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#13

“Narrow the Scope, Broaden the Horizon.”
― John Stack IV

tags: epistemology, methodology, ontology

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#14

“Narrowing often occurs because something missed.
The broader horizon exists because we kept looking from the place where it missed.”
― John Stack IV

tags: epistemology, footprints, ontology, pedagogy, temporal-engineering, the-good-work, the-good-work-collaborative, wisdom

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#15

“A preserved Miss is a vehicle by which error carries knowledge into its next state.
Every genuine, preserved Miss becomes a Hit on the inquiry.
It can miss the target and hit the map.”
― John Stack IV

tags: epistemology, inquiry, mapping, ontology, pedagogy, temporal-engineering, the-good-work, the-good-work-collaborative, wisdom

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#16

“Energy persists does not entail personal identity persists.”
― John Stack IV

tags: energy, identity, motion, ontology, self-awakening, self-aware, the-good-work, the-good-work-collaborative, transition-state, wisdom

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#17

“Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist," so said Pascal. In fact, its incomprehensibility validates its existence: For that which does not exist we can hardly give adjectives, like incomprehensible.”
― John Stack IV

tags: ontology

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#18

“Dangers can be faced but until done the suspense is unnerving; and that suspense, is what feeds and inflates our fears.”
― John Stack IV

tags: fear

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#19

“It takes more energy to give a damn than to not give a damn.”
― John Stack IV

tags: standing-your-ground

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#20

“To be able to elicit emotion from a thing is to be able to control it.”
― John Stack IV

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#21

“The First Lock may not be Time.
The First Lock may be the language through which humanity decided what Time was.”
― John Stack IV

tags: language, perception, perception-of-reality, perception-quotes

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#22

“God grant us the Serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the Courage to change the things we can, the Wisdom to know the difference, and the Patience to see that in Your Ways and Your Time all prayers are answered, though we not understand how . . . Not Yet.”
― John Stack IV

tags: perceptions, perceptions-of-reality, prayer, prayer-quotes, timeless, wisdom, wisdom-nuggets, wisdom-quotes

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#23

“We may have been confusing "Engineering Time" with "Engineering through Time.”
― John Stack IV

tags: giving, perspective-shift, perspectives, temporal-engineering, the-good-work, wisdom, wisdom-nuggets

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#24

“Something meaningful is occurring here.
It involves work, goodness, continuity, and discovery.
Come closer. Ask.
The Work is Happening. We are Participating.
There is room for you to participate too, if you like . . .
The Heart has been long preparing a banquet for this Journey . . .”
― John Stack IV

tags: existential-facilitation, existential-invitations, family, love, the-good-work, wisdom, wisdom-nuggets

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#25

“Some ambiguities are defects.
Others are Doors.”
― John Stack IV

tags: disciplined-wonder, et-hoc-genus-omne, existential-facilitation, existential-invitations, in-motion, the-good-work, wisdom, wisdom-nuggets

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#26

“You don't have to believe someone else's Dream,

You are invited to Dream . . .”
― John Stack IV

tags: beliefs, dreams, existential-facilitation, existential-invitations, footprints, introspection, perspectives, the-good-work, wisdom

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#27

“A Theory says: This is what we think is happening.

A Instruction Manual says: Here is how you can perform the operation yourself.”
― John Stack IV

tags: epistemology, giving, instruction-manual, invitational-facilitation, ontology, pedagogy, perspectives, the-good-work, wisdom

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#28

“Not Yet is a valid result.
Possibility is not promotion; ambiguity is not failure.”
― John Stack IV

tags: epistemology, footprints, language, ontology, pedagogy, philology, semantics, the-good-work, wisdom

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#29

“The metronome of our inquiries and methods is singular, constant, residing in rhythm with my heart’s beating rhythm, which I openly share with you . . .

Others may not understand it, not yet, nor are they required to . . .

Our metronome keeps a steady pace when others possibly want to hear it . . .

The Door is open, always has been . . .

Come right this way, if you please . . .”
― John Stack IV

tags: epistemology, footprints, invitational-facilitation, pedagogy, perspectives, temporal-engineering, the-good-work, the-good-work-collaborative, wisdom

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#30

“A preserved Miss is a vehicle by which error carries knowledge into its next state.
Every genuine, preserved Miss becomes a Hit on the inquiry.
It can miss the target and hit the map.
A productive Miss never ceases to be a Miss. Its value lies in what the preserved failure teaches next.”
― John Stack IV

tags: epistemology, inquiry, methodology, ontology, the-good-work, the-good-work-collaborative, wisdom

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