Openness culminates in action. Becoming actively involved in the world and in the lives of others is the ethical-active component of openness. The attitude is one not only of generosity but of ... Read More about Welcoming – Assisting – Offering: Being Open-handed
Living in service to others reflects a high state of ethical attainment. Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do ... Read More about Serving
People can take initiative, and thereby shape their own world, their communities, and the world at large. Initiative . . . is doing the right thing without being told. [Elbert Hubbard] Without ... Read More about Taking Initiative – Making a Difference
To admire someone is to see qualities in her that you do not have, or have as much of, in yourself. To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. [attributed to Theophile ... Read More about Admiring
Solitude is a state of being alone, in a state of peace and contentment. Even love is reborn in solitude. For only in solitude are those who are alone able to reach those from whom they are ... Read More about Solitude
Habits are mainly a combination of emotion and action. Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. [Mark Twain] Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be ... Read More about Habits and Attitudes
By observing other people, we learn about them. You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. [attributed to Eric Hoffer] The great advantage of ... Read More about Observing
To survive, at least some of us must work. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. [attributed to Vince Lombardi] The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good ... Read More about Working
Principles are rules of conduct. They are essential guides to ethical behavior but rarely can be taken as absolutes. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like ... Read More about Being Principled