I'm deeply touched and very
moved
by your responses to
Essays - Twelve Years
Later: A New Beginning
- that's the twelfth annual State Of The Union
celebration
of this
Conversations For
Transformation
internet
series of
essays.
Each of these now over
one thousand
essays
elicits responses ongoingly. It's inevitable they will. That's just
their nature (but it's not
why
I
write
them). Most responses come to me via
e-mail.
The
e-mail
responses to
Essays - Twelve Years
Later: A New Beginning,
were of an order of things I've never experienced before - I'm
referring to both their sheer volume, as well as the profound
depth of the sentiment they communicated.
I'm
clear
about your acknowledgement. "Thank You" and "You're Welcome".
Really. Mostly I'm
clear
about your generosity. Generosity? When we have an intimate
relationship
with another human being, that
relationship
is often off limits,
private,
and its intimacy sacrosanct. Yet for the most part, you allow me to
speak
to your intimate
relationship
with
Werner.
That's generosity.
Furthermore I'm
clear
that's
why
these
Conversations For
Transformation
are successful - and by that I mean
why,
for the most part, they
work.
They
work
not because there's anything special about
Laurence
or about things I say, but because they
speak
to people's
relationship
with
Werner.
Perhaps it's "just me", but I'm willing to bet hard
cash
that "people's
relationship
with
Werner"
includes everyone - people who already have a
relationship
with
Werner,
as well as people who
resist
having one and / or people who are yet to discover they already
have one.
I've got my own thoughts about
why
people get what they get from
being around Werner
ie my own thoughts about
how
transformation
is communicated - none of which, by the way, are necessarily
"The
Truth"
just because I think them. Having said that, what's always
interested
me about this is the way people, when they're
around Werner,
don't become more like
Werner:
no, instead they become more like themselves. To me that
demonstrates
an incredible trust, a profound
unimaginable
intimacy. What allows for this? ie what could possibly
allow for this, I
wondered.
So
I asked him
(what better way is there to find out?). I asked "More people trust
you being more intimate with them than anyone else in history.
Why
do so many people
open
to you so deeply, so
fully,
so
freely?".
After a quiet moment, he replied
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