Advice Business Leader Would Give to His 22 Year-Old Self
People think compassion is a soft skill. The strongest people I know are the most compassionate. True compassion requires superhuman...
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- Mar 7
- 3 min
Sharing Stories Of The Good For The Good
"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...
- Jan 16
- 4 min
Courage
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of...
- Jan 11
- 4 min
How To Hold A Cockroach And A Spider... And Everything
"Be curious, not judgmental." (perhaps falsely attributed to Walt Whitman, poet; endorsed by Ted Lasso, me, and my compassion circle)...
- Dec 7, 2022
- 6 min
Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of...
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
Remember This - A Lesson In Compassion
"Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings." Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift Yesterday, my...
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
Sawubona, Say What?
"We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging." Dr. Hunter...
- Oct 9, 2022
- 5 min
What Are We Up To?
"There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. Georges Braque, French artist Night before last John and I...
- Sep 22, 2022
- 3 min
Getting Close To Home
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B. Smedes, author, ethicist, theologian My husband...
- Sep 13, 2022
- 5 min
Of Myths, Grace, and Hallelujahs
"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in" Poet,...
- Aug 29, 2022
- 4 min
Fence Or A Welcome Sign?
Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate...
- Aug 21, 2022
- 3 min
Sailboats In The Water
“Mystical poetry stills the mind.” ― Bert McCoy, English teacher and writer Some Eastern religions have used deep attention to...
- Aug 14, 2022
- 1 min
Keeping Our Eyes Open
"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is...
- Aug 12, 2022
- 5 min
All We Really Need To Know
"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" Matthew 22: 36 (New Testament, Christian Bible, New Revised Standard Version...
- Jun 25, 2022
- 5 min
Go To The Gold Standard?
“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? ― Alexandra Katehakis, psychotherapist Stock...
- Jun 9, 2022
- 5 min
Compassion Gone Right, A Lesson
“Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless...
- Jun 7, 2022
- 5 min
Compassion Gone Wrong, A Lesson
“Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the...
- Jun 6, 2022
- 4 min
Could You, Would You, Help A Russian?
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it. Dr. Daniel Goleman, author and...
- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
How to Stop The Hurt
“Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the...
- May 10, 2022
- 3 min
Often We Need a Good Ear Not Advice
Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. Jill Bolte Taylor I would like to say this has only happened once or...
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