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“Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work.
That's the promise of
Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility - that's the essence of
Barack Obama
DNC, 8-28-08
"We don't accomplish anything in the world alone...whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weaving's of individual threads from one to another that creates something."
Sandra Day O’Connor
“It is through being wounded that power grows and can, in the end, become tremendous”
“It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
Gandhi
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
Andrew Carnegie
“We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness....”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad,
not whipping individuals into a single batch of V8.”
Sandra Richardson
NL, 2008“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't, but in the end they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.”
“Anytime we see systems in apparent chaos, our training urges us to interfere, to stabilize and shore things up. But if we can trust the workings of chaos, we will see that the dominant shape of our organizations can be maintained if we retain clarity about the purpose and direction of the organization. If we succeed in maintaining focus, rather than hands-on control, we also create the flexibility and responsiveness that every organization craves. What leaders are called upon to do in a chaotic world is to shape their organizations through concepts, not through elaborate rules or structures.”
Margaret J. Wheatley
“Nothing happens in the quantum world without something encountering something else. Nothing is independent of the relationships that occur. I am constantly creating the world - evoking it, not discovering it - as I participate in all its many interactions. This is a world of process, not a world of things.”
Margaret J. Wheatley
"This fundamental truth of the self can be realized only if the individual is willing and courageous enough to follow to some natural conclusion,
this moment of experience,
this facing the unknown,
and participating with the total commitment of the self.
Such expression, such passion for life
may emerge in written, spoken, graphic
or aesthetic forms in relation or in isolation;
in I-Thou encounters; and in silent, inner experience.
A compassionate willingness is required -
as is the courage to live before the fact,
before the understanding,
before any rational support or certainty,
to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion,
and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief,
misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs."
Clark Moustakas
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”
Erma Bombeck
“To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with each other we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence. It is, in fact, seriousness that closes itself to consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.”
James Carse
"The outside world pressures you into a mold,
and if you don't accept that - you gamble with life.
Call it gambling...
You know when I decided to become professional -
that means to expose yourself naked to the world
with other creative minds...
I said, "I'm going into areas I don't know.
I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself."
Then I said, "Well, who cares?
I'd rather do it and see what it's all about."
I don't want the safe way...
The safe way limits you."
Louise Nevelson
Maybe we should all see and color outside and beyond the lines...
Maybe it is the only way to learn and create;
opening the beautiful and authentic spaces...
-grassrootsmsw-
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
Elizabeth Foley
“One change,
always leaves the door open
for the establishment of others…”
-Niccolo Machiavelli-
“The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one.”
Ben Okri
