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Humor can be an amazing tool for delivering an honest message in a good-natured way. A recent study even found that “sense of humor” was the phrase most frequently used to describe the most effective leaders.2
Sheryl Sandberg • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Let’s say I want to learn to speak English — and I admire you because you speak so well. And I say, ‘Wow, when you were growing up, what did you practice?’ You know, speaking it. You did it! You just spoke! And you were never not allowed to participate. No one made you practice . No one said you have to learn these words first. Got to say your ABCs... See more
Amit Varma • 'How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives'
When some of you come in, we look into one another’s eyes and we recognize each other. Across time, across space, independent of all of the forms of the dance. Two souls meeting. Are you in there? I’m in here.”
Ram Dass
They’ll tell you, you need to be kind and forthright and aggressive and meditative and a free spirit and dependable and cautious and not be pushed around and live free or die and be helpful and put your own gas mask on first and be spiritual and religious and empirical and scientific and hate this and vault that and play to your talents and always
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We are the prisoner, the warden and the pardon- holed up in our heads - stuck in our skulls - and yet, paradoxically, already free.
It sounds trite.
And I guess, in some weird way, that’s why so many of us will never actually leave the boxes we’ve built for ourselves, to imprison ourselves, when the pardon we seek - is a simple [backward] step away.
“I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness,” he told me. “It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.”