Fresh Insights From Barry Oshry

SPACES

Top spaces bring out our arrogance,

Bottom spaces our dependency;

In Middle spaces we lose our selves,

And Customer spaces evoke our righteousness.

In spaces of shared responsibility

we become territorial;

In spaces of common danger

we mobilize in holy war;

In spaces that separate us

we fall into a soul-shriveling I-ness.

So master the space,

and master your self within the space;

Choose a space of common venture

in which each of us is committed to the other

And all are reaching beyond our selves

to leave our imprints on the world.

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