Often it is difficult, superficially, to distinguish between the works of man and the works of god. By god here I don’t necessarily mean – although I don’t exclude either – the God of religion or of a particular scripture; I mean the god whose presence we detect when we sense true inspiration and genuineContinue reading “The Works of Man and the Works of God”
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Why Leaders Need Personal Development
What is leadership? As Dr Johnson observed about light, it’s easy to see what light is, but not so easy to say what it is; so with leadership – we can easily see its positive presence – and the dire consequence of its absence – but to say what it is proves more tricky.
The nebulous, the subjective and the sub-conscious
I find when I talk about motivation I frequently have to admit three things: that motivation, as a topic, is nebulous, subjective and mostly ‘sub-conscious’. What do I mean by this? When Dr Johnson, of dictionary fame, was asked, What is poetry? He famously replied that this was like asking, What is light? We allContinue reading “The nebulous, the subjective and the sub-conscious”
Spirit and light
One of the big questions of existence – in the West but virtually nowhere else – is whether the spiritual world is a reality. Put another way, whether matter created mind or more accurately whether mind 'evolved' from matter; or, as all significant religions hold, mind created matter. The word most often used forContinue reading “Spirit and light”
The Mapping Motivation Series 