Quotes from Alex Pattakos

Being part of any solution means taking action. And taking action involves more than just dreaming, no matter how vivid, how real, one's dreams appear. Whether dreaming or awake, when we are prisoners of our thoughts, we can't always see very clearly through the bars of our metaphorical prison cell, let alone take action.

In work relationships it is important to recognize that business and personal issues are frequently tied together. "Smart companies know that the individual's ability to create relationships" is the engine that drives value.4 Trusting each other's motives is critical to success, both in the moment and over the long haul.

Thomas Moore, psicoterapeuta y autor del superventas Care of the Soul,b que nuestros momentos más conmovedores son aquellos en los que nos hallamos desequilibrados en lugar de equilibrados.

Skalleberg also has a revolutionary formula for building a company culture in the postmodern era: "Confidence is the start of it, joy is a part of it, love is the heart of it.

I don't just deliver mail," she said enthusiastically and with a great deal of pride. "I see myself helping to connect people to other people. I am helping to build the community. Besides, people depend on me and I don't want to let them down.

When meaning is honored at the top of any organization, it can be easy to bring meaning to our jobs. It's a natural reflection of meaningful values. If we are valued and appreciated, if our well-being is nurtured, we feel a part of a meaningful whole. But soulfulness can trickle up, too. It might be more difficult to honor meaning at work with little evidence from above, but it also might be more important to do so.

In life's most difficult situations, it is our capacity to cope and personal resiliency that are put to the ultimate test. It's then that the freedom to choose our attitude takes center stage. To exercise this freedom effectively, however, we must be able to view any given situation from different vantage points. We must know we are and be flexible and courageous enough to make a shift when necessary, even if it means moving away from what is expected or considered "normal.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.

the I-It relationship, we treat other people as objects and expect something back from each relationship. In contrast, in the I-Thou relationship we relate to others out of respect, friendship, and love.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!50

Every human being is a Leonardo da Vinci. The only problem is that he doesn't know it. His parents didn't know it, and they didn't treat him like a Leonardo. Therefore he didn't become like a Leonardo. That's my basic theory.47

Whenever possible, he fought against the idea of collective guilt, even though it was an unpopular stand immediately after the war.

We often seem to create meaning by complaining. This can feel momentarily satisfying, but ultimately it undermines the integrity of our experience. It sucks the meaning out of our work and out of our relationship to our

The range of what we see and do Is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice That we fail to notice, There is little we can do To change Until we notice How failing to notice Shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing With

Significantly, we now turn to online news sources that reinforce a particular worldview. As we filter out what does not resonate with us, sooner or later, we fail to see or hear any alternative views. Eventually we find it difficult to interact meaningfully with those who hold differing views. As we view the world through a smaller lens, we lessen our ability to learn from diverse perspectives. Our societies become more fragmented as a result of this increasing myopia.

Sadly, we are losing the "soul" of our communities, ignoring the danger that when a community (or society) loses its soul, it loses itself.

When we complain, we hold whatever or whoever we're complaining about as a shield. We therefore perpetuate victimization and helplessness.

No worthy end can ever really be accomplished with unworthy means.

Man is not free from conditions. But he is free to take a stand in regard to them. The conditions do not completely condition him.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness. I

1. We choose a positive attitude about the situation at hand. 2. We choose to visualize what's possible to deal with the situation at hand. 3. We choose an attitude that generates passion for the action that makes the possible become a reality.

granddaughter, eliciting a round of laughter. "Do you want more food, YiaYia?" asked her granddaughter

Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

Frankl's key message that we always have the ability to respond to anything that comes our way in life by exercising our capacity to find meaning. Life doesn't just happen to us—we are responsible for our own lives, and it is up to us, like Frankl was able to do even in the Nazi death camps, to actively find meaning in our lives. We cannot be victims, we cannot be passive participants in life and, most of all, we cannot be prisoners of our thoughts!