📫 Humanity & Light – Weekend Words #054

Powerful reminders for a smarter weekend

October 04, 2025

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Happy Saturday. Your weekend words are: humanity and light.

“We must embrace the idea that human beings are complicated; even messy at times. Expecting people to be on their best behavior all the time simply ignores reality (that goes for us human leaders, too). When we know people can be messy, we're more inclined to be patient, tolerant, and open to diverse perspectives—all of which helps make our people feel safe.”

— Mark C. Crowley, The Power of Employee Well-Being

“Man must have light. He must live in the fierce full constant glare of light, where all shadow will be defined and sharp and unique and personal: the shadow of his own singular rectitude or baseness. All human evils have to come out of obscurity and darkness, where there is nothing to dog man constantly with the shape of his own deformity.”

— William Faulkner, The Mansion

More from the author in our word of the week: Horizons.

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