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The Infinite Leader
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The Infinite Leader

by Chris Lewis, Dr. Pippa Malmgren
October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 53m
English
Kogan Page
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CHAPTER TWO

Circles and zeros

What is the history of balance? What significance does the concept of zero have? What imagery and symbolism are passed down to us from history? Is there a role for a greater spiritualism that connects leadership and love? Do qualitative assessments matter? How does this differ around the world?

We come into this world with nothing and we leave with nothing. Our life is parenthesized by zeros. Zero is also a symbol. Most of the religious texts tell us this. We’ve known about the concept of zero since the Sumerians in Mesopotamian culture. We have real difficulty, however, with things that have double meanings. This is because we’ve been trained to look at the world analytically and mathematically. So, when we see ...

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ISBN: 9781789666502