Begin to weave and the Lord will give you thread.

It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

"I can easily feel very right - even righteous - about my opinion.  But I always learn something, especially when I remember that my perception about what happened is only one version of reality.  I care less and less about the truth of any situation.  I find it much more important and effective to focus on the relationships between people and the possibility of coming to agreements and solutions that work to address the issues raised."

"I trust the mystery.  I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion.  I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real.  And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time."

Ubuntu is not just a word but also a philosophy. It's from a Zulu proverb and means:

"I am a person through other people. My humanity is connected to yours."

"It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done."

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

"For last year's words belong to last year's language.
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

"Why is it so important--what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right--so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter or arithmetic--and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand."

--Howard Roark

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.