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When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly…
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the…
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do…
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent…
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we…
In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There…
We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken…

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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our… — Maya Angelou
Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in… — Kathleen Brown
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip… — John Updike
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled… — Agnes Repplier
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most… — Debbie Ford
A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket — Richard Fenton
We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to… — Unknown Author
Sometimes we need to take back and take a look at ourselves, a look at where we are — David Archuleta
If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back -- if you're out there,… — Paula Deen
To get past your ego and its defenses you need to get quiet, be brave, and listen to your inner voices....When you… — Debbie Ford

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