…inspired by this quote from Thomas Merton:
“If I insist on giving you my truth, and never stop to receive your truth in return, then there can be no truth between us.”
Resolved for 2007: to become more practiced at receiving your truth in order to foster truth between us.
…with a nod to Webster and a list of prefixes
inspiration — in spirit
aspiration — toward spirit
respiration — returning to spirit
perspiration — exuding spirit
conspiracy — spirit together
In a previous post, Don’t Sheild Them From Distress, I suggested that keeping bad news from people is a disservice because some level of distress is necessary for change to occur. Since writing that post I recalled a great example invloving a man whom I once knew.
He had been a young minor league baseball player […]
…when change is needed.
I have written here about the Formula For Change, which can be summarized in this way: change is unlikely, and probably impossible, until the product of distress, an appealing vision, and the capacity to change is great enough to overcome whatever resistance exists.
A key word in that summary is “product.” It indicates […]
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