Courage

RIC_8073-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Courage, without which there is no freedom,

is a virtue rare, precious and hard.

Timothy Garton Ash on Aung San Suu Kyi

What We Mean

RIC_0378-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What we say with our words is so much less important than what we mean with our lives.

Only our lives give weight to our words. 

Mary Jo Leddy, Radical Gratitude

Non-violence

RIC_6175-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence,

so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Wisdom, Skill & Virtue

RIC_7823-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Wisdom is knowing what to do next,
     skill is knowing how to do it,
     and virtue is doing it.

      David Starr Jordan

Leader

RIC_7904-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A life-affirming leader is one who knows how to rely on and use the intelligence that exists everywhere in the community, the company, the school, or the organization. A leader these days needs to be a host – one who convenes people, who convenes diversity, who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our intelligence can come forth.

Margaret Wheatley


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Capacity to be alone

RIC_6171-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The capacity to be alone thus becomes linked

with self-discovery and self-realization;

with becoming aware of one’s deepest needs, feelings, and impulses.

Anthony Storr, Solitude: A Return to the Self

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Own wings

RIC_5011-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

No bird soars too high,
if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake, The Narriage of Heven and Hell