Reflections
A collection of musings, learnings and discoveries:
About Light and Vision
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust
“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.”
- Plato
“Love is a spirit all compact of fire, not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.”
- Shakespeare
“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”
- Mary Dunbar
“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
- Edith Wharton
About Leadership and Work
“The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’”
- Loa-Tzu
“Work is about daily meaning as well as daily bread. For recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying... We have a right to ask of work that it include meaning, recognition, astonishment, and life.”
- Studs Terkel
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
- Peter Drucker
Contact
To find out more about Growing Light, contact Ken Smith on 07818 022854
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