You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there.
If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.
We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.
The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.
The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.
Man is what his dreams are.
I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!