Thanks to 43 Folders for this quote from Pope Benedict XVI:

During his traditional weekly appearance to bless the faithful, Benedict XVI quoted from writings of St Bernard in the 12th century meant for popes of his time on the subject of overwork.

The saint advised pontiffs to ?watch out for the dangers of an excessive activity, whatever? the job that you hold, because many jobs often lead to the ?hardening of the heart?, as well as ?suffering of the spirit, loss of intelligence?,? Benedict said, quoting St Bernard.

Good advice!

Slow Leadership also has related stuff.

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OK, this has been sitting in amongst my bookmarks for ages. I’ve just been syncing my MacBook Pro with my smaller PowerBook prior to a trip; I found the link and paid a brief visit to the site.

Global Mindshift

The site claims:

Global MindShift is a non-profit organization that promotes an expanded view of what it means to be human based on the knowledge of our evolutionary journey.

We may be a lot like you: We lead comfortable lives, but when we look at the world as a whole we’re concerned by what we see… especially when we think about the world our children will inherit. So we asked ourselves, how can we contribute to a positive future?
For answers, we turned to experts from a wide variety of disciplines. We asked, “What do you believe is the root cause of today’s challenges?” We heard a common response: the problem is our worldview. The way we see the world and our place within it is no longer working.

What’s needed is a global mind shift… A new worldview that can help us see today’s problems in a larger context, and give us new, creative ideas about how to solve them.

I haven’t worked my way through the site yet, but what I’ve seen leads me think that we can learn a lot from it - and it will be useful for Baha’is who want to correlate science and religion.

You really need broadband to watch the fascinating video segments.

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