Guiding thoughts:
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration;
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides
whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated,
and a person is humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.
If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become
what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Without a community you cannot be yourself. The community is where we draw the strength needed to effect changes inside of us. What one acknowledges in the formation of the community is the possibility of doing together what is impossible to do alone. This means that individual problems quickly become community problems…… What we need is the ability to come together with a constantly increasing mindset of wanting to do the right thing, even though we know very well that we don’t know how nor where to start…. Your desire alone is strong enough to guide you along this path.”
Malidoma Somè
“It is sheer nonsense to say that the anti-social impulses must be resisted, for they cannot be resisted. The essential inner development of mankind in our time must be grasped, the essential evolutionary tendency understood. It is not a matter of finding prescriptions for resisting the anti-social impulses; but of so shaping and arranging the social order – the structure, the organization of that which lies outside the individual – that a counterbalance is present to that which works within human beings. It is thus vital for our time that, parallel to the individual achieving independence, social forms provide a balance to this independence. Otherwise, neither the individual nor society can develop properly.”
Rudolf Steiner
“Eighty percent of success is just showing up”
Woody Allen
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration;
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides
whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated,
and a person is humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.
If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become
what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Without a community you cannot be yourself. The community is where we draw the strength needed to effect changes inside of us. What one acknowledges in the formation of the community is the possibility of doing together what is impossible to do alone. This means that individual problems quickly become community problems…… What we need is the ability to come together with a constantly increasing mindset of wanting to do the right thing, even though we know very well that we don’t know how nor where to start…. Your desire alone is strong enough to guide you along this path.”
Malidoma Somè
“It is sheer nonsense to say that the anti-social impulses must be resisted, for they cannot be resisted. The essential inner development of mankind in our time must be grasped, the essential evolutionary tendency understood. It is not a matter of finding prescriptions for resisting the anti-social impulses; but of so shaping and arranging the social order – the structure, the organization of that which lies outside the individual – that a counterbalance is present to that which works within human beings. It is thus vital for our time that, parallel to the individual achieving independence, social forms provide a balance to this independence. Otherwise, neither the individual nor society can develop properly.”
Rudolf Steiner
“Eighty percent of success is just showing up”
Woody Allen
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