transformation
No credit can be given for predicting rain—only for building arks
Imagine that you met a remarkable person who could look at the sun or the stars and, amazingly, state the exact time and date. Wouldn’t it be even more amazing still if, instead of telling the time, that person built a clock that could tell the time forever, even after he or she were dead and gone?
It takes some discipline and practice to access one’s ignorance, to stay focused on the other person.
And if we could transform teacher education to focus on teaching teachers to create that magic then poof!
Mahatma Gandhi – put his truths and beliefs through tough tests of realities
The journey of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Mahatma Gandhi was highly challenging. During the course of his life, Gandhi sought to resolve the constant plaguing of self-doubt helped him put his truths and beliefs through tough tests of realities that helped him see an issue from different dimensions and perspectives.The ‘take away’ factors from his life are many. And the more one reads him, the lessons from his life increase with the number of interpretations you can make from the text. Read between the lines, if you must, when you read Gandhi and the essence of his life (and ours, too) increases by manifold to the reader.It is never too late
Just two miles
Buddha was moving from one town to another. They had lost their way. They asked a few villagers on the way, “How far until the next town?”
They said, “Just two miles,” as is always said in India. Whether it is fifty miles or twenty miles, it makes no difference; villagers always say, “Just two miles.” Continue reading
Thought of the Week – 18th August 2014
Robin Williams – “What Do You Wanna Do?”
“Think Different” – Apple Confidential – Internal Meeting Sept. 23, 1997
ONE TUSK 