I spent a good part of the afternoon writing based on a book by Ralph Siu, The Tao of Science. I wrote and broadened the scope to include the Tao of Technology and the Tao of Learning or Education. I grabbed a couple of other books because words like communion and humility came up in relationship to leadership. I refer to Educating for Humanity a lot. and it is one of my most well-used books. An article had this beautiful poem about life`s abundance by Miguel de Unamuno. The way (the Tao) I look at life and my perception is one which is life-giving or not. I think this holds in terms of my interactions with other beings. Life is not separated into fragments but lived wholly and fully with reverence.
Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit;
sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
that brushes your heel as it turns by,
the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.
Now your are only giving food to that final pain
which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,
but to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
is work; start again to turn to the work.
Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,
don`t turn your face that would be turn to it to death,
and do not let the past weight upon your motion.
Leave what`s alive in the furrow, what`s dead in yourself,
for life does not move in the same as a group of clouds;
from your work you will be able to gather yourself.
Teacher as Transformer 