“Effective board members employ active listening skills, acknowledge opposing viewpoints, and focus on finding common ground.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure.”
Source: the bell jar
“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I’ll go take a hot bath.'
I meditate in the bath.The water needs to be very hot, so hot you can barely stand putting your foot in it. Then you lower yourself, inch by inch, till the water’s up to your neck.”
“Still, feeling deeply that his filth was as unforgivable imposition, he'd chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water.
Who knew?”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“Dignity and honor are gifts: “[O God], You exalt whomever You will, and You debase whomever You will” (QURAN, 3:26). Proofs of this Divine law abound. There are many accounts, for example, of people who were once in positions of authority and wealth, who then find themselves paupers completely stripped of their former glory, reduced, in many instances, to wards of the state. God is powerful over all things, and all good, authority, and provision are in His hand, not ours.”
Source: Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart
“To Correct a child will be more expensive than to Teach.
"AI AGE”
“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”
“The Eternal Tao
Like the softness
of water we flow...
through gentleness
of love we grow...
and through blissful
Oneness we know...
Forever is now.”
Source: Random Molecular Mirroring
“The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred; make specific supplication mentioning this person by name, asking God to give this person good things in this life and the next. When one does this with sincerity, hearts mend. If one truly wants to purify his or her heart and root out disease, there must be total sincerity and conviction that these cures are effective.
Arguably, the disease of hatred is one of the most devastating forces in the world. But the force that is infinitely more powerful is love. Love is an attribute of God; hate is not. A name of God mentioned in the Quran is al-Wadud, the Loving one. Hate is the absence of love, and only through love can hatred be removed from the heart. In a profound and beautiful hadith, the Prophet said, "None of you has achieved faith until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.”
Source: Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart
“Include and project the voices of underrepresented people in the spaces where their access is limited. Go love, and build, and restore, and speak, and engage, and create. Go be better and do better.”
Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities