
“The one and only test of a valid religious idea, spiritual experience, or devotional practice is that it must lead directly to practical compassion” – Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
“The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make a system’s weaknesses irrelevant.” – Peter Drucker, quoted by David Cooperrider in the foreword to The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive…
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” – Alfred Korzybski Polish-American philosopher and scientist, creator of the theory of ‘General Semantics’, big influence on NLP,…
“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants” ~ Isaac Newton, natural philosopher What are we to take from Newton’s observation nowadays? What advice does it hold for us? I take it to mean…
Yesterday was MLK Day in the USA. Not surprisingly, there were many inspiring quotes flying around Facebook. This was one of my favourites: “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” More quotes by Dr Martin Luther King…
Image of Nasreddin from WikipediaA tale of the incomparable Mulla Nasreddin on reaching enlightenment: Nasreddin was walking in the bazaar with a large group of followers. Whatever Nasreddin did, his followers immediately copied. Every few steps Nasreddin would stop and shake his…
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” ~ Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Thanks to Sarah for the…
Some wise words on leadership from Amma Theodora – an early Christian monastic who went into the Egyptian desert during the third and fourth centuries to live a life of prayer and contemplation. For ‘teacher’, also read leader, therapist, and…