“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.” Buddha

“Many pieces of weak writing suffer more from writer’s not having really consented, deep down, to give her meaning than from whatever lack of skill she may have.” Peter Elbow, Writing with Power

When we groundlessly assume that the behaviour of our neighbours is based on their goals, we just bring to the world one more pile of trash. In fact, people never know with full certitude what are their goals and why they live at all. They are just as much unprotected, even helpless sometimes, as they succeeded in getting rid of stereotypes.

People undervalue the power of everyday places. There are a few quiet places I owe the best finds of my mind, and all of them look like but usual places. I think that the key to thinking is repetition, not novelty of impressions. When we are used to think at the same place, our thinking power grows, because we use that place as a container for our thoughts — we can easily start where we left off.

outside the box from joseph Pelling on Vimeo.

A useful list for those who use Twitter: 60 Transformational Leaders to follow on Twitter.

Edward de Bono’s new social website is now up and running. My profile is here.

“As of yet, almost no one in either the worldwide creativity movement or the worldwide accelerated-learning movement is aware that every technique for solving problems or for evoking creativity, can also serve brilliantly in another capacity. Each such creativity-related method is also a profoundly effective method for improving and accelerating learning, especially learning-with-understanding”. (Win Wenger, more on the subject here).

“Through second attention, you can perceive yourself as awareness itself, not as one of its products or creations”. (Deepak Chopra)