Knowing what you can and cannot expect from each person and knowing what to do to make sure the best ideas win out are the best way to make decisions. Idea-meritocratic decision making is better than traditional autocratic or democratic decision making in almost all cases.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Mentors represent the Self, the god within us, the aspect of personality that is connected with all things.

Great leaders bring out the best in everyone, rather than seeking to shine themselves.

Often a child’s very gifts (his great intensity of feeling, depth of experience, curiosity, intelligence, quickness—and his ability to be critical) will confront his parents with conflicts that they have long sought to keep at bay by means of rules and regulations.

A telos crisis is defined by the fact that people in it don’t know what their purpose is. When this happens, they become fragile.

Refusing to be a slave to our circumstances doesn’t mean we don’t fight for what’s right; it means we fight from a place of reconciliation, of peace, of love.

The people who radiate a permanent joy have given themselves over to lives of deep and loving commitment. Giving has become their nature, and little by little they have made their souls incandescent.

Multi-Tasking Does Not Make You More Productive

The followers of Jesus have been called to peace. When he called them they found their peace, for he is their peace. But now they are told that they must not only have peace but make it.