12 I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

Maxine Hong Kingston, novelist and essayist

QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT OR DISCUSSION:
What are the paradoxes in my current work situation? Am I able to hold both parts of the paradox without trying to move into either/or thinking? How can I use both/and thinking to include the ideas of others in my workplace?

13 All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader

QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT OR DISCUSSION:
How do I create mutuality in my workplace? What needs to happen in order for everyone to have the opportunity to grow and succeed?

<< First | < Previous

14 Love after love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott from Collected Poems

QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT OR DISCUSSION:
What do I see when I look myself in the eye in the mirror? Do I like the person I've become at work? Do I respect myself, my decisions, and my work? How do I celebrate my own life?

Next > | Last >>