Inspiration takes many forms. Not being rabbinical, I'm hardly above web-surfing for my gems of wisdom, which Google considerately dishes up in the form of occasional Bible quotes, Chicken Soup stories, inspirational sagas, and ideas from random sources. Looking for enlightenment in all the wrong places, I found this lovely story in a book about Jewish spirituality (thank you Google Books!).

It's African, actually -- an ancient African legend about Yameel, the fastest and most reliable runner on the African continent. In days of yore, he could find any location; the most-remote tree in a jungle for him was as easy to find as the largest settlement.

One day, a village elder came across Yameel, standing in the middle of a road in the midst of a mission.

"Why have you stopped?" he asked Yameel.

"I have been running so fast that I have left my soul behind," Yameel answered. "I am standing here waiting for it to catch up to me."

The trick, says Rabbi Greene, is to stop and sink into your soul. It's one of those paradoxes. The slower you go, sometimes, the faster you will go. Managing the horrific details of a crisis can be overwhelming. Don't neglect the invisible, spiritual aspects of everyday crisis management.