The love and af firmation of your spouse has the power to heal you of many of the deepest wounds. Why? If all the world says you are ugly , but your spouse says you are beautiful, you feel beautiful.

With the addition of iron tools to their wet-climate crops, the Bantu had finally put together a military-industrial package that was unstoppable in the subequatorial Africa of the time.

Suffering upsets the normal patterns of life and reminds you that you are not who you thought you were.

Companies often become successful for reasons that aren’t obvious at first glance, and smart entrepreneurs understand that. They know they have to think differently about the business in order to distinguish themselves from their competitors.

Increasing specialization has created a system of parallel trenches in the quest for innovation. Everyone is digging deeper into their own trench and rarely standing up to look in the next trench over, even though the solution to their problem happens to reside there.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

As you navigate your new obligations, start to ask yourself: How important is the thing I’m doing? Does it seem to be important because it’s urgent?

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

It is also the right way to think about productivity in a startup: not in terms of how much stuff we are building but in terms of how much validated learning we’re getting for our efforts.

Spiritual community can be thought of as an exchange between two or more people that reflects those four passions: the safety of celebration, the hope of vision, the wisdom of loving discernment, and the power of touch.