Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Everyone will grow older, but few will grow wiser.

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I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.