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

The inspirational leaders of the future will be those who can draw from the vast diversity of people with different specialties and allow their seemingly disparate perspectives to interact, collide, and germinate into truly unique and creative ideas.

Robert Hargrove, author, Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration

You are what your deep driving desire is.
As is your desire, so is your will.
As is your will, so is your deed.
As is your deed, so is your destiny.

Upanishads, Hindu scriptures

We need each other differently now.  We cannot hide behind our boundaries or hold onto the belief that we can survive alone.  We need each other to test out ideas, to share what we’re learning, to help us see in new ways, to listen to our stories…to offer hope when we’ve lost our own.

Margaret Wheatley, author, Leadership and the New Science

When your ship, long moored in the harbor, gives you the illusion of being a house, put out to sea!  Save your boat’s journeying soul and your own pilgrim soul, cost what it may.

Dom Helder Camrara, the “tiny prophet” of Brazil

We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something and to do it very well. It may be incomplete but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for God’s grace to enter and do the rest.

Archbishop Oscar Romero 

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities.  A possibility is a hint from God.  One must follow it.  In everyone there is latent the highest possibility, one must follow it. 

Soren Kierkegaard, theologian and existential philosopher

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.  And the most you can do is live inside that hope.  Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver, critically acclaimed author and winner, National Humanities Medal

When we take on the full dimensions of our work – the messiness and the order, the triumphs and the failures – we can transform just about any situation into an opportunity for connection and deepening for both ourselves and the others around us.

Rabbi Irwin Kula, author, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life

I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirit of trees and a blue dream of sky; and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.    E.E. Cummings, poet