As we continue our deeper look at the core and meaning behind what is referred to as chivalry, we include lines of inquiry about what is natural, or what is right, or how we as human beings discover what is naturally arising, such as mutual respect between the genders.
How do we proceed with this conversation in a very polarized postmodern world where everything has become subjective, and everybody can reason for themselves what is true or not true?
Is there no longer a sense of what was once viewed as a unified set of standards, or higher truths, now largely thrown out – the baby thrown out with the bathwater – in the revolution that started the ‘60s of the 20th century?
We can come together if we make the center of our lives simple things like care, respect, patience, dignity. So it seems to me the first place of chivalry is simply to make choices about what you base your life on. Simply by making choices life moves from ‘anything goes,’ and what looks like our modern world, to, well, I'll use the word purpose
Marianne Ashcroft
Since I was a small child, I have always been searching for what's real and irrefutable. Not prepared to settle for the answers that others chose to give me, I set out to find out for myself why I'm here and what I'm here to do; what I'm part of and how I can honour my part in it.
I believe every life has a song to sing, and we can each discover our unique combination of notes from the talents, skills, perceptions and passions that each life is gifted with.
Jeremy Stuart
I believe that inside everyone lives genius, whether active or yet to appear; and that it is a great service to try to foster it in oneself and in others. When people feel safe enough to exchange freely and honestly, with respect for each other and their differences, exciting things happen. That's why I'm here.
Sus Friis Jorgensen
It would appear that life is a long line of changes - and seemingly not a straight line and neither a one line! Whenever I attempted to sort out my life, once and for all, I mostly ended up engaging with the most unpredictable and surprising aspects of life - as if life itself didn’t want me to put it into a foreseeable outcome: The journey started along educational pathways leading to classical physics. Then leaps happened and I continued along an artistic line as a professional dancer working at theatres & art schools and - later again - teaching instead of performing.
Now, I find myself at the point of starting all over, so.. changes.
It is still a complete enigma to me what being alive is all about. I am still writing “my own ticket” in life to become a self-chosen, best-version of being me, being human.
Aviv Shahar
Aviv is the Founder of Aviv Consulting, helping leaders unleash strategic innovation, and is the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.
