It's also been suggested I make it (quote unquote) look
easy. That's nice. Listen. Let me tell you something: it's
not easy. It ain't easy. It's never easy. This seldom goes my
way ... or ... I could say it only goes
my way when I make my intention
Werner's
intention.
I'm constantly giving up my way in this matter - which
is never, ever easy for any human being -
believe me: I know! I can't begin to tell you the number of times
I've thought "Forget this! I'm outta here!" and
imagined
putting a notice on the
Conversations For
Transformation home page
saying "This
website
is no longer available" ... but fortunately the feeling soon passes
and I get back to
work,
more empowered and more insightful than before.
You could characterize
Werner
in many ways. You could characterize him as the guy who invented
transformation
- and I say that in the same way as I characterize Sir Isaac Newton
as the guy who invented
gravity,
in the same way as I characterize Professor Albert Einstein as the
guy who invented relativity, in the same way as I characterize
Nicolaus Copernicus as the guy who invented the
heliocentric solar system. You could characterize him
as the founder of several extraordinarily successful
organizations held in reverence by staff and customers alike. You
could characterize him as the inspiration for hundreds and
hundreds of businesses delivering coaching and
programs which profoundly impact the quality and
the
workability
of peoples' lives.
You could characterize him as a rough cut self-taught
philosopher with a dazzling gift for the Socratic
method, having none of the usual formal education and
qualifications in these areas, yet held in high esteem by some of
the greatest minds on
the planet.
You could characterize him, along with
Alan Watts,
as one of the most formidable and getable exponents of
Zen
the world
has ever seen. You could characterize him as
just a regular
guy
learning to ride a motor bike or
taking his Mom out
for her birthday.
All that's valid. But if you're going to
play
in this global possibility of
transformation
I suggest you characterize
Werner as
intention.
When I first heard him speak
"It's much easier to ride
the horse in the direction he's going"
I assumed
the
horse
he referred to in this now infamous aphorism, is the
inexorability
of Life itself. And who knows? That may indeed be what he was
referring to. Now
nearly thirty five years
later
I wonder if
the horse
isn't
Werner
as intention
... and if I'm going to
play
in this global possibility of
transformation
then that's
the horse
for me to ride, that's what there is for me to keep up with, that's
what there is for me to set my compass to.
Now here's the thing: I don't know for sure if any of
that's true - it's just an inquiry I'm in. This is what I
do know: characterizing
Werner as intention
and as nothing but intention for these
Conversations For
Transformation
to ride in the direction he's going,
works.
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