“Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.” FeelsStatesAbleNaturalAttitudeMeditationConditionsLiberationTunesDaily LifeFormal Author:Adyashanti
“In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.” MatterEasyNaturalCompanyLeaderRecordsOrganizationContrastFormalHierarchy Author:Gary Hamel
“Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.” MenMindReasonHandsSeemsFormUniverseNaturalExistenceWesternAcceptedRationalArtisticGreekCosmosMeaninglessIrrationalFormalMeaninglessness Author:William Barrett
“Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?” GivingMindEasyNaturalComplimentFormalDispositionCivilityPolitenessTriflesBenevolentConversesAmiable Author:William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
“A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.” DoneAbleNaturalLeaderAuthorityRelyFormalThings DoneWhips Author:Gary Hamel