The Virtues Blog

Dave and Dara were guests on the Culture and Leadership Connections podcast to introduce Virtues, share insights on culture and offer ways to bring positivity to our world. Starting with a phone shake of the Virtues Cards and a random selection of the ‘Caring’ card, some highlights...

“We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” ~ Buckminster Fuller, author

 As we post this final blog of the ‘Whole New...

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”  ~ Albert Einstein 

 It has never been more important to play. In fact, play is the new work. To boost our mental and emotional health, many of us have an opportunity to embrace a new spaciousness of life at home, by creating new...

Looking for a summer read, I came across Strengthsfinders by Tom Rath, a book I read more than 10 years ago. It was written with the goal to start conversations about ‘what’s right with people.’

This feels more relevant today given how much we are constantly barraged with...

Have you found yourself wondering what you can do to elevate justice and heal the harms that are rampant through our society?  Do you find yourself questioning the best way to move forward in hopes of not doing  harm to others and/or not continuing to experience harm yourself?  If...

“Be a lamp or a ladder or a lifeboat. Help someone’s soul to heal. Step out of your house like a shepherd.” ~ Jalal’u’din Rumi, Sufi mystic

Whenever there is a rise in human suffering, the need for compassion increases dramatically. We are now, in the midst of a...

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

Gratitude is appreciation for the good in our lives, even under dire circumstances. People who are thankful in the...

Virtue 3: Resilience

“Life is not about how many times you fall down, but how many times you get back up.”  ~ Nelson Mandela

Resilience is a virtue we’re urgently calling on in the midst of the current pandemic, the anguished call for a social justice movement, and...

“The injury of one shall be considered the injury of all; the comfort of each, the comfort of all; the honor of one, the honor of all.”   Abdu’l-Baha, Baha’i Faith

We did not originally include Justice as one of the virtues in this blog series, though it was...

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”  Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, author, Man’s Search for Meaning

The Covid 19 pandemic has brought...