personal development on Ambiguity

Ambiguity may keep people up nights, but anyone seeking exquisite simplicity in his or her career ought to look for a non-leadership position. Leaders, by definition, have followers. Followers need di...

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.… The nature of leadership demands that there always be an element of uncertainty. The temptation is to thin...

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Contradiction, paradox, the tension of opposites: these have always been at the heart of my experience, and I think I am not alone. I am tugged one way and then the other. My beliefs and my actions of...

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to le...

Whatever happens to me in life, I must believe that somewhere, In the mess or madness of it all, There is a sacred potential— possibility for wondrous redemption In the embracing of all that is.

At some point, the two worlds of who we pretend to be and who we really are must collide. It is, however, better to let those two worlds collide rather than have everything snap under the tension of k...

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

I find it hard to be at rest and ambitious at the same time.

"Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and i...

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one needs.

“It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points."

Discernment is not a matter of simply telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

It is human to err, it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

He is either greater than we can understand, perceive, describe, or imagine, or He is not God—we are.

The mystery I wish to explore…is this: vulnerability as the condition, the enabling condition, for covenant relationship with God…Vulnerability, the capacity to be wounded—what does that mean for us w...

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along, that while we need to be reassured of God’s arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already a...

The biggest deception of our digital age may be the lie that says we can be omni-competent, omni-informed, and omni-present. . . . We must choose our absence, our inability, and our ignorance—and choo...

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

There is not any thing, relating to men and characters, more surprising and unaccountable, than this partiality to themselves. . . . Hence it is that many men seem perfect strangers to their own chara...