I've been reading alot of Greenleaf lately. He is arguably one of the greatest authors on the topic of leadership, especially that of Servant Leadership. In his publication, "The Servant as Leader" he quotes great artist, Albert Camus from Create Dangerously:
One may long, as I do now, for a gentler flame, a respite, a pause for musing. But perhaps there is no other peace for the artist than what he finds in the heat of combat. "Every wall is a door," Emerson correctly said. Let us not look for the door, and the way out, anywhere but in the wall against which we are living. Instead, let us seek the respite where it is-in the very thick of the battle. For in my opinion, and this is where I shall close, is IS there. Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps, then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say this hope lies in a nation, others, in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works everyday negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. As a result, there shines forth fleetingly the ever-threatened truth that every man, on the foundations of his own sufferings and joys, builds for them all.
