A Window on Leadership

I think Dick Richards has done in a few short lines about as well as any­body could do to sum­ma­rize one of the impor­tant mean­ings of Barack Oba­ma’s elec­tion. In a post (now lost to hack­ers) he shared a con­nec­tion for him between the shoot­ing of John F. Kennedy and the elec­tion of Barack Oba­ma,… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Win­dow on Leadership

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Our Civil War

This is an emo­tion­al time for Amer­i­cans — what with the mar­kets crash­ing and the wan­ing days of the pres­i­den­tial cam­paigns. The air­waves are full of com­men­tary into the mean­ing of every small move on either sub­ject. And at every turn there is anoth­er sat­u­rat­ing bar­rage of side-tak­ing opin­ion. It is so appar­ent that our… Con­tin­ue read­ing Our Civ­il War

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A Very Shy Wild Animal

Over at Whiskey Riv­er I found a stun­ning quo­ta­tion from Thomas Mer­ton’s book, New Seeds of Con­tem­pla­tion: . The false self con­sists of all of the efforts we make to nur­ture a rep­u­ta­tion for our­selves in the mind of oth­ers. In our cul­ture, we have a com­pul­sive need to be val­i­dat­ed by exter­nal sources. But… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Very Shy Wild Animal

On Acceptance

There is so much hub­bub around us about self-help and improve­ment that the key pre­con­di­tion of per­son­al change — self-accep­­tance — often gets com­plete­ly lost. I’m as guilty of this one as any­body, and maybe more than most. If you are inter­est­ed, as I am, in all things self-actu­al­ized, you too may expe­ri­ence the dilem­ma.… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Accep­tance

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