The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. -
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- The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
- Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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