"...We mistakenly ascribe external, physical attributes as prerequisites for leadership – things like gender (generally, male), education (MBA), height (tall), race (white), family background (you get the idea). This is a very biased – and ineffective – way of choosing leaders. And we are suffering for it."
"...Kindness, social enterprise, and economic development can successfully co-exist and help to positively transform communities that are suffering from poverty and crime into vibrant hubs..."
"A few days later, the rippling feeling settled. And in its place, came a truly unexpected feeling: exhilaration... It is amazing how heavy that one pebble had been to carry all these years..."
“…I train so I can fall. I train so I can get back up. I train so I can befriend rather than unfriend.... And I train to heal the enemy from within before it creates more suffering.”
"...I’m excited by the kinds of organizations that are really connecting with and giving voice... Letting people tell their stories, and inviting everyone to join and really create something together. The new book about the Parkland kids brought me to tears, they’re so passionate and not cynical. They’re intensely attached to what they’re fighting for."
“Gathering matters because it is through each other that we figure out what we believe.”
photo by Lara Herscovitch One of the exercises in CLP is about identifying and clarifying our own personal values. We each identify our top 5 values, writing one each on 5 index cards. Then we have to drop one…
"...If you can change the way you think and feel about yourself, you can change your world... I honor myself and others by never being afraid to fail, because that is where true learning comes from..."
Lessons on healing, connecting, exploring, practicing, eating, sparring, resting, listening, stretching, loving, teaching, swimming and much more - from Bolivia, India, Italy, Japan, Norway, and Turkey.
