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Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

— Margaret Wheatley Turning to one another (2002)

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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

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Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

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Leadership is always dependent upon the context, but the context is established by the relationships.

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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

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