Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about
language, ideas, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.

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Between wrongness and rightness there is a field. I will meet you there. | As quoted in Counselling Psychology: Integration of Theory, Research and Supervised Practice (1998) by Petruska Clarkson | Out beyond the world of ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there. | As quoted in Lightning in a Bottle: Proven Lessons for Leading Change (2000) by David H. Baum | Out beyond ideas of right and wrong doing, there is a field. I will meet you there. | As quoted in Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images (2002) by Michael Collopy, p. 109 | Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing There is a field. I will meet you there. | Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy: Individual, Collective and Organizational Learning Processes (2000) by Robert L. Cross and Sam B. Israelit

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