“But you cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Continue reading
Author: onetusk
Action and Contemplation
“The old dispute about the relative virtues of the active way and the contemplative way is a spurious one. We require both.
They are phases of a single rhythm like the pulsing of the heart, the in drawing and letting go of breath, the ebb and flow of the tides. So we go deep, deep inwards in meditation to consolidate our vital energy, and then, with greater love and wisdom, we come out into the family, the community, the world. Without action we lack opportunities for changing our old ways, and we increase our self-will rather than lessen it; without contemplation, we lack the strength to change and are blown away by our conditioning. “
Continue readingThe Footprints Prayer
One night I had a dream… Continue reading
Look at each moment as if it is a fresh moment
When we recognise that we have a habit of replaying old events and reacting to new events as if they were old ones, we can begin to notice when that habit energy comes up. Continue reading
Annihilating Bureaucracy
We cultivate the hatred of bureaucracy in our Company and never for a moment hesitate to use that awful word “hate.” Continue reading
Don’t try to be useful
Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’
And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’ Continue reading
Walking by
If you walk by a problem, no matter how little it is, you as a leader have set a new standard.
– Noel Tichy
Cycle of Nature
In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat: there is only movement. Continue reading
when confused as to how you are doing as a leader…
You won’t remember when you retire what you did in the first quarter…. or the third. Continue reading
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