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A few years ago, I did a meditation retreat in Thailand.
So what you'd be wondering, watching the Human Show, is are we going to confront and address the catastrophic climate shift that may be heading our way by growing our consciousness, or are we going to continue to retreat?
We tend to retreat and say, "We can draw a picture, we can post some graphs, we get it, we understand how this works."
The challenges that we face cannot go away if we recoil and retreat into our shells, wishing and imagining that those problems will somehow magically disappear.
It can retreat to Exchange and crank the price there.
And we feel like we have to get far, far away to a secluded retreat, leaving it all behind.
For example, in land use, which areas do you want to protect, through adding a seawall, for example, alter, by raising buildings, or retreat from, to allow the migration of important natural systems, such as wetlands or beaches?
We did the family equivalent of a corporate retreat.
For example, imagine a passage from Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:" "The whole engagement lasted above twelve hours, till the graduate retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and the Surenas himself."
The perpetrators aren't these monsters who crawl out of the swamp and come into town and do their nasty business and then retreat into the darkness.
I can only have faith in it, commit myself, that is, to the idea of it, and I do this precisely because of the temptation to throw up my hands in resignation and retreat into silence.
Helplessly and hopelessly, I began to retreat into this nightmarish inner world in which the voices were destined to become both my persecutors and my only perceived companions.
Maybe we need a new story, not a story about giving up the fight or of hopelessness, but rather a story of victory and triumph, of a valiant battle and, eventually, a graceful retreat, a story that acknowledges that not even the greatest general defeats every foe, that no doctor has ever succeeded in making anyone immortal, and that no wife, no matter how hard she tried, has ever stopped even the bravest, wittiest and most maddeningly lovable husband from dying when it was his time to go.
In the 1970s, when it appeared that the price of energy would never retreat, our economy was soaring, and then in the early 1980s, it cratered quickly.
They do, like, three years' retreat, where they do meditate 12 hours a day.
And every season I do try to take three days off on retreat but a part of me still feels guilty to be leaving my poor wife behind and to be ignoring all those seemingly urgent emails from my bosses and maybe to be missing a friend's birthday party.
Civic imagination and innovation and creativity are emerging from local ecosystems now and radiating outward, and this great innovation, this great wave of localism that's now arriving, and you see it in how people eat and work and share and buy and move and live their everyday lives, this isn't some precious parochialism, this isn't some retreat into insularity, no.
And then I went to a golf course in Shenzhen, which is in southern China, and you can see from this banner, they're advertising a retreat from PM2.5.
America's Promise Ministries, the religious arm of Aryan Nations, happened to have a three-day retreat during my visit.
Among the many memorable episodes of that retreat... (Laughter) ...is when Abe, an Aryan, sidled up next to me.
My mind became a tool that I could use to either close down to retreat from my reality or enlarge into a gigantic space that I could fill with fantasies.
WRTC invited Ross and I to a grief retreat, and we met about 15 other grieving families who had donated their loved one's organs for transplant.
They represent a retreat back towards nationalism and borders in ways that many of us would reject.
When you face the greatest need to look outside yourself and think critically, fear beats a retreat deep inside your mind, shrinking and distorting your view, drowning your capacity for critical thought with a flood of disruptive emotions.
When Danone, the food company, wanted to translate its new company manifesto into product initiatives, it gathered the management team and 100 employees from across different departments, seniority levels and regions for a three-day strategy retreat.
And I would say to you that these are folks who, when our country was threatened, or our world was threatened, they didn't retreat.
And that we should resist the temptation to retreat into our silos.
And the destination was a single room in a nunnery, where a woman had gone into lifelong retreat 55 years before.
It seems that these gentle giants would rather retreat and protect their fleshy bodies than feed on me.
And we've had the retreat from special-ness under the barrage of science and technology many times over the last few hundred years, at least.
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