“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”– Pema Chödrön I came across this quote quite a while ago and I recently found it again in Read more…
Over at the Get Rich Slowly blog, they pulled out lessons from the documentary, “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” that can help with your current job or career. Some of the advice includes falling in love with your work. He writes: “Dream jobs don’t simply work their magic because you find them; they do because you marry them for life and Read more…
“If honorable actions are the cobblestones, mistakes are the mortar.” We judge others way too much. All too often this judgment is based on someone’s behavior. I think this is because someone’s behavior is the most observable characteristic. Batman once said, “It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.” The problem with this is, how many Read more…
Over the past few years I have changed my language to better reflect my beliefs. In all that I’ve accomplished in my life, I have never been one to set goals. It became a challenge for me because in one of the classes that I teach, I required students to come up with 3-4 goals to work on through the Read more…
“Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them.” –Brené Brown We here at CI are big fans of Brené Brown. Right now a few of us are reading her new book, Daring Greatly and are meeting regularly to talk about the chapters. The above quote is from this book and Read more…
