Stephen Mitchell
Stephen Mitchell
Stephen Graham Mitchellis a British journalist who has been Head of News Programmes, BBC, since 2007 and Deputy Director, BBC News, since 2008. He announced his retirement without payment from the position of Head of BBC news programmes in December 2012 in the wake of the Pollard Report into the Jimmy Savile scandal...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 July 1949
important action intention
So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.
way mastery letting-things-go
True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
years two ordinary
There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.
creativity mental-health paradigm
Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.
once-upon-a-time ever-after happily-ever-after
Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.
jesus rain believe
[Jesus] teaches that just as the sun gives light to both wicked and good, and the rain brings nourishment to righteous and unrighteous, God's compassion embraces all people. There are no pre-conditions for it, nothing we need to do first, nothing we have to believe. When we are ready to receive it, it is already there. And the more we live in its presence, the more effortlessly if flows through us, until we find that we no longer need external rules or Bibles or Messiahs.
drama reflection dust
The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin.
heart orchids rocks
When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.
education growth preparation
Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.
teacher criticism faces
Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.
blessing firsts sometimes
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
children past dragons
Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.
hate loss people
What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.