Peter Block - Community: The Structure of Belonging (2008)

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Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

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We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others.... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.

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The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

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