ABSTRACT
Leaders today are faces enormous challenges, most of them not of their own doing. Leaders must help people move into a relationship with uncertainty and chaos. Spiritual teachers have been doing this for millennia. Instead of fleeing from the fearful place of chaos or trying to rescue people from it, leaders can help people stay with the chaos, help them walk through it together, and look for the new insights and capacities that always emerge. In Christian traditions, times of chaos have been called "dark nights of the soul." In present culture, people call these "clinical depressions". The joy and meaning of service is found in every spiritual tradition. It has been expressed very simply in an ancient Buddhist teaching, 'All happiness in the world comes from serving others; all sorrow in the world comes from acting selfishly". All spiritual traditions teach ways to find peace of mind and acceptance.
