We do live in times of tolerance… Or rather you could say, in times where there
is an increasing need for tolerance.
Reason is simple: we live in a period of growing
diversity and, as a society, we are not that ready for it. Diversity makes people feel insecure, as they
tend to label others and protect themselves and those who are equal to them,
and it is that insecurity that makes intolerance grow.
Normal people bear
with what happens to them; they cope
with other people’s ways of being or just go out and sue them. A leader … well, leaders are different,
because their perspective is unique and may be summarised in one word and that
is service.
Meister Eckhart said something related to the capacity
a leader has to tolerate: Do exactly what
you would do if you felt most secure.[1] It
is this deep sense of security a leader has imbibed that enables him or her to
deal with situations with a broad mind and perspective.
As a leader, you are able to look at others in a way
that sees their highest potential, abilities, and which gives them hope and
encourages them, for tolerance is in fact not only to accept others, but to
give them the best from your heart.
Maybe you have heard that the best image for tolerance
is a tree laden with fruit, which gives away irrespective of people throwing up
stones in order for the fruit to fall. By
giving your fruits as a leader, then over time others will become content, and
will eventually end any attacks as you have left a beautiful impression on
their hearts.
(Excerpt from the book 82 Reasons to be a Leader)
(Excerpt from the book 82 Reasons to be a Leader)
[1] Meister Eckhart (c.1260 – c.1328)
was a German philosopher and theologian.
You can find the whole quote in this page:
http://www.quoteland.com/author/Meister-Eckhart-Quotes/1273/
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