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" We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement. "
David Whyte
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" Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. "
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" Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end. "
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" We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due. "
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" The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. "
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" Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. "
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" The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death. "
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" It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection. "
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" In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms. "
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" To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins. "
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" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "
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" The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. "
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" A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world. "
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" There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there. "
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" I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time. "
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" Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation. "
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" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "
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" There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. "
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" To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past. "
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" Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness. "
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" It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living. "
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" Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. "
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" I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves. "
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" Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity. "
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" The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering. "
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" Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. "
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" I have hundreds of poems memorized. Mostly by others, but also my own. I use the poems when I lead retreats for management groups on topics like creating teams, or coming up with a more entrepreneurial system, or creating more excitement. "
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" Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing. "
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" A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear. "
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