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.

If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe–no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house. The only way in which we could expect it to show itself would be inside ourselves as an influence or a command trying to get us to behave in a certain way.

If you want to have allies—always a good thing if you want influence—you obviously need to provide others with something so they will support you.

Negative emotions like stress, anxiety, or frustration are signals that your 'thought-o-meter' is in overdrive.

Your title is meaningless compared with the power that you can have when your team trusts you.

Buying stocks for less than they are worth and selling them as they approach their true worth is at the heart of value investing.

The principle of least resistance explains why many professionals default to shallow work, as it is often easier and more immediately rewarding.

The kings and priests of ancient Sumer wanted writing to be used by professional scribes to record numbers of sheep owed in taxes, not by the masses to write poetry and hatch plots. As the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was 'to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings.

Great managers are not philosophers, entertainers, doers, or artists. They are engineers. They see their organizations as machines and work assiduously to maintain and improve them.

Avoid investing in companies that have a lot of debt relative to theirnet worth.