Hero Within – Rev. & Expanded Ed

remember that no single one of us needs to do it all.
If we let go of grandiosity and recognize that we all are partial and thus necessarily interdependent with others, we can share the diversity of our gifts and voices. You learn from me and I learn from you. That is how we grow, and that is how we can solve the great problems of our time. Your individual life is one stream pouring into a river of humanity. You never can know exactly how much difference your life makes, but you can know that you do matter, immeasurably

There is, of course, no lack of spirituality in our organizations. They are full of people with highly developed spiritual lives. It is just that to be taken seriously, most workers believe that from nine to five they have to pretend this is not so.

Most of our social systems lag behind human consciousness. As a result, they often can be transformed as quickly and unexpectedly

Whatever you are thinking or feeling, you have company

some way, it is very difficult for that archetype to be active in our lives. The hero within always is in dialogue with the hero without

The more conscious we become about our own imbalances, the less time we spend creating problems we then have to solve.

The individual and collective psyches are inherently self-correcting

truth is that life is a communal experience

If an archetype is active around us, we are issued an invitation to enter its story

The leadership issue is not to get rid of the Orphan, but to create an environment that encourages its more positive expression.