One year I wanted to do something special for our sisters. I suggested that each one write down what she thought was beautiful in her sister and her community. I asked each sister to send her answer to me.

A thousand letters arrived. Just imagine! The sisters were surprised that someone would notice such beautiful things in them, that there was someone who was able to see them. All of this fostered a beautiful spirit of love, understanding, and sharing.

If we would be more willing to see the good and beautiful in others we would be able to transform our families. From there….. our neighborhood or city. We would be able to bring peace and love to our world, which hungers so much for these things.  Mother Theresa of Calcutta 

We are about to enter the age of word of mouth, and that, paradoxically, all of the sophistication and wizardry and limitless access to information of the New Economy is going to lead us to rely more and more on very primitive kinds of social contacts.

Malcolm Gladwell, author, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Openness, sharing, and acting globally define how twenty-first century companies compete.  The old hardwired “plan and push” mentality is rapidly givng way to a new “engage and cocreate” economy.

Don Tapscott and Anthony D. William, authors, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

We all want both success and fulfillment.  Success is often measured in external ways, but there’s an internal measure of success, and it’s called fulfillment…it doesn’t have to do with your job description of the specifics of your work.  It has to do with how you bring your self to your work.

Richard Leider, life coach, speaker and author, The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work

It is bewildering to try to determine whether a call is “of God” or of some other source (better to) focus on whether a particular call has integrity or not, whether it makes us feel more or less authentic, more or less connected to ourselves and others, more or less right, not morally but intuitively.  Better to ask whether a call gives us a feeling of aliveness…

Gregg Levoy, author, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life