I heard a man talk about a moment when he met U2 and got to talk with Bono and The Edge. The most profound thing about that meeting, he tells, was that "they seemed just like us, which made us believe that we could be just like them."
I was at a meeting yesterday, where I heard Colin Powell talk about leadership. The thing that affected me most about him was that he revealed the nearness of who I could be. I realize that the people who have brought change in my life are the ones who diminish the gap between my current condition and the man I might become.
That is the kind of leader... the kind of man that I want to be. I want to be a man whose life reveals to others what they are capable of. To do so I need to not be aware of the difference between me and others- that reveals only poverty (in both sides). I need to be a man who is aware of how near we all are, which reveals the nearness of abundance... the nearness of who each of us can be.
... we are better with, not better than.
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