A Flower's Job Is To Bloom

I loved this reflection, as I think it sits at the core of so much of the unfulfilled potential of our public service sectors. The blooming flowers of our academy might unveil truth and understanding, but often this desire for approval and acclaim turns it into what Herman Hesse called the glass bead game. Everywhere I go - the NGO sector, philanthropy, journalism etc, there's the same priority placed on status and recognition. And while it provides powerful ego-fuel for accomplishment, it often feels limiting of our true promise and potential, individually and collectively. What a wonderful thing to identify that and seek, individually and collectively, to become free of it...

Thankyou for sharing this profound truth. Everywhere we seek this ego fuel and it limits our ability to serve unconditionally , to love unconditionally