The age of revolution requires revolutionaries.

If you act like a ward of your organization, you’ll be one, and both you and your company will lose. So if you’re still acting like a courtier, or a consort, bending to the prejudices of top management, buffing up their outsized egos, fretting about what they want to hear, getting calluses on your knees—stop! You’re going to rob yourself and your company of a future that’s worth having. No excuses. No fear. If you’re going to be an activist, these have to be more than T-shirt slogans. Continue reading →

The fol­low­ing excerpt is from an arti­cle by Easwaran that appeared in the Autumn 2006 issue of our quar­terly Blue Moun­tain journal:

“Not long ago it was con­sid­ered impos­si­ble for a human being to run a mile in less than four min­utes. The ‘four-minute mile’ was a built-in phys­i­o­log­i­cal lim­i­ta­tion, a kind of invis­i­ble wall that one could approach but never break through. And while every­body believed this, it was true. Peo­ple resigned them­selves to watch­ing the record creep up by hun­dredths of a sec­ond, harder and harder to beat as the magic wall got closer.

“And then some­body who didn’t believe in invis­i­ble walls – a young Eng­lish physi­cian, Roger Ban­nis­ter – ran faster. It was humanly pos­si­ble! Belief in a four-minute bar­rier col­lapsed. It took just six weeks for another run­ner to break Bannister’s record, and today, moth­ers and stu­dents go out on week­ends and run at speeds that experts once decreed beyond human reach. Today some say the real limit is a three-minute mile. But most peo­ple are unwill­ing to set lim­its at all, and records are bro­ken regularly. Continue reading →