Leadership is the art of making great movements or communities. It is an act of creativity and requires great crafsmanship–the craftmanship of relationship.
“Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness. If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.”
Alain de Botton
“The loveliest things in life are but shadows, and they come and go, and change and fade away…” – Charles Dickens
“Play energizes us and enlivens us. It eases our burdens. It renews our natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities.” – Stuart Brown
From his book on the science of Play
“The greatest and most important problems in life can never be solved, only outgrown.”
C.G. Jung
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.” – Junichiro Tanizaki
“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.” – Henri Matisse
Anais Nin on Multi-Dimensional Growth
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
Anais Nin
“This zone of play is almost hypnotic, a true brilliance appears in a decent athlete, an intuition of the body to know how much force and effort to put into each and every move in order to gain maximum effect. The goal of many spiritual practices is to empty or free the mind in order to access intuitive intelligence.” – Amy Lux
Strength, Patience, Trees with Steve McCurry
If you would know strength and patience,
welcome the company of trees. – Hal Borland
