“A mindful leader looks at his being (witnessing consciousness or awareness) as the substratum on which he plays his leadership role. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he does not. Sometimes he is the manager, then he might become a follower. But his awareness remains unchanged.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Being a leader is only one of many roles you might play. You also play personal roles such as a sibling, parent, child, spouse, grandparent, etc. all of these roles depend on you for their existence. But what mindfulness shows us is that your awareness can be independent of these roles.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Self-awareness is the practice and trait of noticing our inner experiences non-judgmentally. It is the ability to be aware of one’s thoughts, feelings, emotions, intentions, motivations and actions.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Mindfulness cannot be practised in a cave. It requires active interaction with the world in the present. The place where you are is the place where you are meant to be and that is where you experiment. Your home, workplace and the society you live in is your mindfulness gym.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“In mindfulness, we learn to live with thoughts as they are.”
Source: Mindfulness for the Family
“Through their discomforts Dom and Phil were missing everything of interest: the sudden strip marshes, the faces in the rock formations, the perfect lakes, the awesome måskoskårså valley grooved into the earth during the Ice Age, the golden eagle circling above it, and the views of a landscape it was impossible to believe existed in Europe.”
Source: The Ritual
“Wyn eal gedreas. Isso é parte de outro poema que às vezes ouço ser cantado no meu castelo. É um poema triste, e portanto um poema verdadeiro. Wyrd bið ful ãræd, diz ele. O destino é inexorável. E wyn eal gedreas. Toda alegria morreu.”
“Till you cut ties to all authoritarianism, you'll never sense the spark of holiness.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Erano i tardi anni Ottanta, a breve sarebbe crollato il muro di Berlino e i pezzi sarebbero stati venduti come souvenir, l'essere umano ha la capacità straordinaria di convertire le minacce, la morte e la disperazione in denaro sonante.”
Source: Sumarljós og svo kemur nóttin
“Visvaviking (Sonnet 1504)
Smiling through my martyrdom
I took the world into my care.
Ice cold currents of catastrophe
are no match for my asgardian dare.
Swimming through a tsunami of sneer,
I found my peace in world's welfare.
Beware, o merchants of malice and hate,
Better not force your fate out of layer!
Crushing all memorials of invading scourge,
Parting the ocean to deliver from divide,
Rushing as apocalypse to right the wrong,
I am Sapiothunder to all genocidal pride.
I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla is my empire - I am Visvaviking!”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets