Conversations For Transformation:
Essays Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
Sailing
St John, United States Virgin Islands
June 29, 2001
Recently I spent two weeks sailing and diving on vacation on the island
of St John in the United States Virgin Islands with twenty four of my
family.
In the evenings, after we had sailed home and moored the yacht and
gotten down to the business of talking, sharing, being together, and
reveling in the moment as family, I kept noticing that in various
forms, what people really are about and what they really want for
themselves and for their families in life is
transformation.
That's the bottom line.
Some of them see it and realize that they have always wanted it. Some
of them know that they want it but they do not know how or where to get
it. Some of them do not yet know that that is what they really want,
and
paradoxically
- even when presented with it
face to face, close up,
larger than life and twice as natural
- because of the belief systems they have crafted together (I say
"crafted" to imply "woven" as well as "crafty" ie "sly"), they
resisttransformation.
And it's all genuine. It's all different expressions of the listening
people are ie of the listening you speak into when you share
transformation.
Every human being, because of who they really are, wants
transformation,
whether they realize that or not. So if you speak to that listening,
communication is accurate.
When I speak for you, I serve you. When I listen for you, I am you.