Qualities of Transition – Part 1
“First you see it, then you believe it”…Wayne Dyer
To move from transition to transcendence we need to have vision. We need to move from the seen to the unseen…from what we must work with …to what the possibilities are in the imaginal. Never has imagination been more needed – even as we acquire more knowledge we are still left with problems, and concerns and fear and doubt. In imagining, anything is possible. I was talking with a friend this week about the legacy of Walt Disney. For those of you who don’t know, Walt was told he couldn’t really draw cartoons by the paper he hoped to join as a young man. I am sure there might have been some disappointment there-but not for long. Walt soon had a vision for cartoons that could be animated…and not long thereafter Mickey Mouse was born and the rest as they say is history.
I grew up on Disney -my mother frequently said my imagination was too vivid and I think I squelched some of it as a result but this week I was reminded of how important it is to see something that is not there so that it can appear. Stephen Covey said no blueprint – no building and what preceded the blueprint…a vision of a structure not yet seen.
Right now, we don’t have a lot of answers from the world of knowledge – how do we come back together again as a community or a workforce or a support team – to bring new levels of wisdom and understanding.
I pose this question as a starting point -What are you longing for – not what do you want to happen (I know, I know more normality) but what are you longing for? Longing is a spiritual question – a question that goes deeply into our hearts and minds. I guess I am reminiscing this week as I think of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech – I have a dream…a dream of the Beloved community. I know that is one of the things I am longing for – not just a community of common interest or like-minded thinking but a beloved community that devotes itself to healing and tenderness. One of my heroes of the spiritual realm is Father Gregory Boyle, the founder of the largest gang intervention work in the world. His new book is entitled The Whole Language, the Power of Tenderness. It speaks to the quality of vision for the transcendence that must surely happen. Grab your Kleenex and read it …it is full of the love, care, compassion and change that I think we are all longing for. This week consider your longings, consider a vision that addresses them for one and for all.
Next week – another quality to move us from transition to transcendence.
