If you are intent on Saving the World do you take a Top Down or Bottom Up approach?
Bottom up, as in, rally people to a cause. Get at least some enthused enough to take some action. i.e. Change to buying energy efficient light bulbs. Excellent work but when you do the numbers pretty ineffectual in [...]
In no particular order I list some quotes that have relevance to the intentions of Kahatika.
“For it is in giving that we receive.” ~ St. Francis of Assisi
“All communication must lead to change” ~ Aristotle
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
“Integrity is the essence [...]
When I speak of my “Save the World” goal I don’t mean saving the planet. After all, the known life cycle of the sun dictates the ultimate demise of our planet. Saving the sun is not on the agenda.
So when I say I want to save the world I actually want to save our species, [...]
It’s an interesting time of year to observe human behaviour. All the monotheistic religions are having or recently have had a major event in their calendar. That seems to put a perceivable buzz in the air that effects us all, regardless of whether we have a faith or not. It manifests in lots of ways, [...]
Wisdom – the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight. ~ Dictionary.com
Insight -an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, esp. through intuitive understanding ~ Dictionary.com
If I create a tool that gives us practice at exhibiting [...]
If the role of business is to identify an others pain and offer a cost effective solutions to that pain, one would suspect compassion would have a major role in business.
Should more businesses be embedding, or at least deriving inspiration from a Charter for Compassion when formulating the company mission and standard operating procedures?
Does the [...]
If you had a virus that if given to a patient, cured them, and once cured, would give that patient the ability to infect other sick people with that virus, hence curing them and so on until all sick people were cured; Would you start the ball rolling by giving that virus to the first [...]
The world needs saving because the climate is changing. This is impacting on the way we as humans currently live and we are all worried.
Being agnostic I find I just don’t know what the truth of the situation is. There is so much conflicting information out there that seems to be so complicated and with [...]
You can imagine with a goal or mission to “Save the World”, especially when you are not certain that it even needs saving, that the journey along the way becomes pretty important.
You’ve got to like the process. You have to enjoy pondering things. You have to find it interesting connecting disparate things together and deriving [...]
I’ve never been a disciplined person. I wish I was. I’m sure if I had been I would have achieved a lot more than I have by now. I know the theory but have a hard time putting it into practice. I should have goals. I know they should be attainable, measurable, and time bound. [...]