Power of Gifts Podcast

Posted on February 3, 2020

Thought Leader Peter Block

Bruce Anderson from the Core Gift Institute talks with John McKnight and Peter Block, authors of The Abundant Community, as part of the Why Gifts Matter podcast series. McKnight and Block discuss the power of gifts and the courage it takes to break out of a deficiency way of seeing. Listen:

In this podcast:

Gifts as a portal to commitment [11:00]
How gifts are healing [14:00]
Skills and gifts are different [26:00]
What are Peter and John learning about now? [40:00]
Sharing our gifts, lifting burdens [46:00]

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Leroy

Leadership is willingness to have faith in a future we do not understand.

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All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

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Paolo Friere

Revolution is not capturing institutions, it is discovering free space and enlarging it.

Paul Goodman

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

Lost luggage is an initiation ritual. It is an invitation to a simpler life.

Madeline Nold

Every time you add a highway lane, you slow down traffic.

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Godwin Hlatshwayo

The power to call people a problem is the most injurious thing you can do.

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A part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

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Italian Proverb

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