Profound truth and practical wisdom for living
- Wisdom that helps people transcend their limits to live richer and more meaningful lives
- Rearranging and distilling existing wisdom to create new insights
- Inspiring thought leaders and influencers
- Wisdom, not just of the mind, but also of the heart and soul (poetry, art etc.)
- Wisdom, not just verbal, but also visual. Not just rational, but also emotional.
- A treasure hunt for profound truths and principles to apply
- Mining for gold: the most profound and most practical
- Exposure of false beliefs that diminish and limit us
- A lasting legacy that contributes to the greater good
- Celebrating the seers and sages, both ancient and modern, that wisdom has come through
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Exploring big ideas with curiosity and openness
- Exploring possibilities (See possibilianism)
- Sharing and distilling the opinions of the world, letting you make up your mind
- Inclusive, recognising the truth in all perspectives
- Humble and open-minded: an exploration, not a sermon.
- An approach to wisdom that encourages loosening around our beliefs and paradigms
- Embracing paradox: the fact that opposite things can be simultaneously true
- Cross pollinating ideas to create new insights and perspectives
- Big ideas, powerfully distilled
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Integrated and whole
- An integrative approach: integrating points of view from spirituality, science, art, philosophy and psychology
- Connected and integrated: everything relating to everything else
- Context: showing where each topic fit into the bigger picture
- The whole infinitely more valuable than the sum of the parts
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Excellence and attention to detail
- Quality and care
- Consistency
- Making the Internet a better place.
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Uplifting and consciousness raising
- Curation done in a state of flow and presence
- Inspirational
- Positive and affirming
- Appreciation and celebration for life and wisdom
- Wonder and reverence for the sacredness of life and the world
- Humour: the deepest wisdom always sees the funny side
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A timeless reference work but also a work of art
- Combining the rigour of scholarship, study and research with artistic and creative flair
- Art is reflected in the selection of quotes, the creation of meaningful stories, the writing of commentary and wisdom summaries etc.)
- Beautiful, elegant, simple, masterful
- Ground breaking
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Providing both essence and substance
- Comprehensive selections of quotes provide the substance (detail). Wisdom headings and summaries provide the essence.
- Wisdom is distilled to create potent and pure essence.
- Big ideas are distilled to their essence.
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Ability to toggle between detail and a wider view
- Different horizons of focus: both close up and wide-angle views
- Multiple big picture views: showing where each quote and topic belongs in wider contexts
- Wisdom overviews, frameworks and models
- Broad topics (generic) and narrow topics (specific)
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Curatorship rather than aggregation
- Curatorship searches through vast realms of content to select the most profound and most useful.
- Quotes are chosen and arranged into meaningful stories.
- A distinct voice and insightful point of view
- Value is added through meaningful commentary.
- Thorough and comprehensive but not exhaustive: quality not quantity
- Includes well known quotes and authors as well as undiscovered gems
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Collaboration and sharing
- A team of conscious, passionate curators
- Sharing and celebrating best practice
- Discussing and sharing
- A shared passion for life, wisdom and truth
- Thriving discussion and sharing of ideas
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Living and breathing
- A timeless but living and evolving reference work
- Ever-deepening
- Organic and fresh
- Constantly updated
- Experimenting and innovating with new approaches
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Streamlined and user friendly
- A user friendly site, easy and intuitive to search and explore
- Automated processes in the back end
- User friendly content submission tools