by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Paradoxically, to survive depression you have to give yourself over to it. You have to embrace the darkness, or enter into the darkness, or let yourself become the darkness, and try not to judge yourself for it.
You also have to try as much as possible to honor whatever small signs of progress might come as you work your way through that darkness, or as it works its way through you.
–Parker J. Palmer, Ph.D.
THE SUN INTERVIEW NOVEMBER 2012
If Only We Would Listen
What We Could Learn About Politics, Faith, And Each Other
See also Resistance is Futile on this blog.
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
I have a firm belief in this now, not only in terms of my own experience, but in knowing the experiences of other people. When you follow your bliss, and by bliss I mean the deep sense of being in it, and doing what the push is out of your own existence – it may not be fun, but it’s your bliss, and there’s bliss behind pain too.
You follow that and doors will open where there were no doors before, where you would not have thought there’d be doors, and where there wouldn’t be a door for anybody else. There’s something about the integrity of a life. And the world moves in and helps. It really does.
And I think the best thing I can say is to follow your bliss. If your bliss is just your fun and your excitement, you’re on the wrong track. I mean, you need instruction. Know where your bliss is. And that involves coming down to a deep place in yourself.”
–Joseph Campbell
The Hero’s Journey:
Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
p. 217
Emphasis added to remind you to get a coach. Don’t just drift into hedonism.
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
–John Donne
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
I use Twitter to share brief messages, not more than two per day. You can have them delivered to your cell phone by text message (SMS) or view them when you visit your free Twitter web page. Create a Twitter account and “follow” TonyMayo. Here are my recent tweets (messages):
No matter how intense the suffering, no matter how tight you might be clinging, there is the possibility of dropping it. –Jonathan Foust
No goofs, no growth. –Tony Mayo See Stanford University research by clicking here.
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures. –-Charles Noble
Becoming a CEO coach isn’t easy: “What is to give light must endure burning” —Dr. Viktor Frankl
… we now live in an era where people of vision are the only practical people. Functioning at the level of what is reasonable is as impractical as one can get. …be willing to bring forth a vision–not in ignorance of the circumstances or what is reasonable, but in addition to all that. —Werner Erhard
I am the equal to all I meet because of the kindness in my heart. —Sarah Adams
If you want to know the culture of a company, then ignore the written stuff and go to a meeting. — Edgar Henry Schein of MIT Sloan Click here for more on meetings that matter.
Prior tweets are here, at Twitter Logs.
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by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
Life moves on, whether we act as heroes or cowards.
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but 
realize it, than to accept life unquestionably. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serve to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
–Henry Miller
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
—Arthur Ashe
1943-1993
Tennis champion
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms, Team Manager Skills
For a social discipline, such as management, the assumptions are actually a good deal more important than are the paradigms for a natural science. The paradigm—that is, the prevailing general theory—has no impact on the natural universe. Whether the paradigm states that the sun rotates around the earth, or that, on the contrary, the earth rotates around the sun, has no effect on sun and earth. But a social discipline, such as management, deals with the behavior of people and human institutions. The social universe has no “natural laws” as the physical sciences do. It is thus subject to continuous change. This means that assumptions that were valid yesterday can become invalid and, indeed, totally misleading in no time at all.
Because the generally held assumptions about management no longer apply, it is important that we first make them explicit, and then replace them with assumptions that better fit today’s reality.
That’s where we are today with the discipline of management.
—Peter Drucker
Forbes, 1998
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. … Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
–Reinhold Niebuhr
The Irony of American History
Page 63
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
I use Twitter to share brief messages, not more than two per day. You can have them delivered to your cell phone by text message (SMS) or view them when you visit your free Twitter web page. Create a Twitter account and “follow” TonyMayo.
Here are my recent tweets (messages):
There is no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained.
What prison could be more secure than one we’re convinced is “the world,” where the boundaries of action and thought are assumed to be limited by the permissible rather than the possible?
Democratic society, as we know it, is the ultimate prison, because who’s going to try to escape from a situation of apparent freedom? —David Edwards
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. –Wm. Shakespeare Measure for Measure
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. –Carl Jung
When tempted to compete & conquer, look to cooperate & create. –Tony Mayo
Prior tweets are here, at Twitter Logs.
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©2011 Tony Mayo
by Tony Mayo | For Executive Coaches, Quotes and Aphorisms
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance.
To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another’s way of life – so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit.
Hands off!
— Henry Miller
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