I often quote or misquote my friend and colleague, Susan Scott, who said in Fierce Conversations something like “most conversations are with myself.. occasionally they include others”. The conversation that follows was intended to be with me, myself, but now seems important enough to share. Before sharing though, a prelude…

Your welcome. I've watched over and over with awe the conversations between K and Bohm. And I've have read whatever I can of both. Mostly, I love the process of inquiry that they both bring to life in their relationship. The questions seem to just flow from each other in the context of the learning. It provides a glimpse for me of possilities. Your pulling much of this thinking together in your posts allows for better understanding for me and a different lens of perspective. Love it!

I am reminded of a phrase from a friend/colleague. "If you don't know the difference between good advice and bad advice then no advice will help". In my work as a CEO Peer Group Faciitator we have a rule that each member was forbidden to give advice that they were not competent to give. Can you imagine how much conversation/noise that eliminated? How would you lead your life if there were no "gurus" to tell you?

What follows from that question is another? What will you choose to do if you were choosing for all humankind?

Periodically I lead a workshop on the topic of "What Happens When You Get What You Want?" One of the questions that arises is "don't you always get what you want?"

Is an "interlude" the same as a "pause"? On another note I am reminded of Tom Friedman in "Thank You for Being Late" making the distinction between humans on pause and computers. Computers stop working while human start working. By that I took it to me the work of actually being human.

What would it be like to be de-centered?

What would the "absence" of fear be like?

Good on you for getting started. I am an old fart who has found writing and publishing to be daunting much of my life. Most days I am immobilized and do not write. Every once in while I'll surface. David Whyte, I think, poetically wrote about writing to find your voice. I hope that you'll find yours and write. You have one more follower cheering you on.