FW: mother list / new or now

Michael Herman mherman at globalchicago.net
Sun Dec 7 23:23:27 PST 2003


dear florian, this is just gorgeous.  and can we also play
with avoiding trying in favor of playing? <grin> mherman




florian fischer wrote:
>
>
> Am 04.12.2003 15:53 Uhr schrieb "chris weaver" unter
> <chris at springbranch.net>:
>
>         ...to me the list is a river rather than a road.  A river has
>         its own life, and a powerful river is beyond any human efforts
>         at engineering.  Yet a river is supremely receptive.  As Sheila
>         Chandra sings, "the Ocean refuses no river -"  and the river
>         does not refuse its tributaries...the tributaries are
>         received...and then the opposite pattern unfurls, as the river
>         divides into a delta, with separate, more-focused streams
>         spinning out their own fractals...?
>
> .dear all,
> I´ve spent wonderfull two hours to refollow this discussion
> which started about the question of a »cynic« about »outcomes«.
> I like the metaphor  of the river and I like the idea of understanding
> the socalled dissonance in music by adding more voices.
>
> please let me add a tributary to the long river of this discussion:
>
> after all I would like to change only  one letter in one of the most
> used words
> in this discussion: it is the word »NEW« which I want to change to the
> word »NOW«.
> harrisons booktitle »expanding the now« let me deepen the insight and my
> experience
> that there is never something new which isn`t already growing in the
> flow just now.
> in my practice of facilitating change  I try to avoid intention in favor
> of extension,
> I try to avoid moving ahead in favor of staying and listening, I try to
> slow down change
> in favor of getting aware that change took already place, I try to avoid
> looking forward
> in favor of looking down to the tiny distance between the just passed
> step and the
> not yet done but unevitably coming next step (which is not the future
> but the following now).
> thinking about new ideas, about a new world, about new stories, about
> new methods
> pulls me away from the NOW which is the only existing space to serve in.
>
>
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