Quotes

Willingness to Take Responsibility

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“What if he doesn’t accept
my apology?” asked the CEO.

“His response
is his responsibility.
The question I’m asking
is what responsibility
are you willing to take?” I remarked.

“My responsibility?” he asked.

“Yes,
whether your apology
is accepted or not,
which is within his ability
to respond,
thus his response-ability
and his choice,
are you willing to choose apology
simply because
it is within your response-ability?” I replied.

“…
I am.” he replied.

“Why?” I probed.

“It’s funny.
I don’t know why,
but just thinking about it
makes me feel healed.” he reflected.

Goal vs Vision

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Vision
is what you’re looking at
without needing
to reaching it.

Goal
is something
you reach.

You can turn your vision
into a goal,
but you can also focus
on a vision
without making it
a goal,
because focus
gives us direction
and that may be
enough.

Beauty

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It is easy
to judge beauty
as lacking
function.

Unaware
of how his behavior changes
when faced
with beauty.

Just because the function isn’t clear

doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter

it just means, it’s versatile

Survival, Byproduct, and Focus

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What we do for our survival
isn’t selfish
it’s natural
and normal.

Others might not like it
but it doesn’t make it
selfish

When we help,
we don’t realize we’re focused
on our own pain and discomfort
but it is when and only when
we can relieve ourselves of tension
and be present enough with our pain and discomfort
to have room in our being
to be with another person’s pain and discomfort
that we can serve
and the byproduct of that is we feel fulfilled
but our fulfillment is not the focus