Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.
We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.
Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.
Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.
Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.
If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply “alone. ”
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason?. . . How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.
Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.