You're proposing that there is something chivalrous about choosing to stand for something, to protect something, to care because it's important. The sense of transcending the self, which you have spoken to in the sense of being in service, in the sense of being in duty, in the sense of stepping into a new space to provide opportunities to oneself and to others.
All those different ways of transcending the lesser self, or the personal self, to a more transcendent self. Wherein, perhaps, what we are sensing and exploring today, the chivalrous path, is one of the ways to consider the transcendent self.
It's actually to be responsible for the future of the human race - and you don't have to be a parent to do that. I think the chivalric extends to choosing the qualities in life you want to be at play, and to become responsible for that, and be a champion for that in oneself.
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.
