If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. Buddha. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
When we show the way for others, we show the way for ourselves.
Source: The Wisdom of Buddha
The Buddha left many thoughts for us to explore and understand in our lives. The link to Lara and Tina‘s post shares several quotes and pictures, underscoring how love and care for others begins with love and care for ourselves.
When we are mindful and attentive to our self, we shine a light for others and we can be mindful and attentive to them.
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In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
Teacher as Transformer 
I love reading Buddha’s quotes, and there are many of them. They make us realize what is really important in our lives. Lara
Lara, I find that each deep thinker i.e Buddha, Jesus, Confucius, Muhammed, etc. help us dig deeper into our self as a process of dicovering and transforming who we are and what we do. We can find ourselves grounded in practical ways in our daily living.
I have never been a Buddha kind of guy, however this was interesting.
I am glad you found it interesting.
Check out The Love Foundation web site and see what they are doing to promote unconditional love, very special folks.
Thank you.I will check them out. It looks interesting and informative.
This is timely for me, Ivon. Ming (23-yr-old-son) is now doing a diploma in positive psychology and wellbeing and I am doing heaps of volunteering with a focus on helping carers of people with dementia. Our mutual and varied suffering has become useful. Early days but very positive! Thank you for sharing yours and others’ wisdoms.
Your volunteering sounds interesting and purposeful. I hope Ming enjoys his studies. Thank you for a lovely comment.
A wonderful way to live our lives.