Andrew

“leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Let your impossible standards crash to the ground. Then pick a few meaningful tasks from the rubble and get started on them today.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It

“Only by sacrificing what we have can we know what we have. Real sacrifice is made with the same definiteness and lack of bargaining that is involved in throwing something away We can do this only if we are forced by a greater power in us - a power stronger than the ego - that gives us the necessary strength. We experience this power as an inner imperative that tells us that we "must." In Jungian psychology we understand that as a message from the Self, the regulating center of the pysche. The sacrificer and what is sacrificed are one and the same: it is always the Self.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales

“Work among all its abstracts, is actually intimacy, the place where the self meets the world.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words