Ricardo Levy has contributed an article, " Dealing With Uncertainty: From the Crucible of Anxiety to the Chalice of Change — Lessons in Leadership".
Dear Good Lifers:
I published last Sunday a long article in my web site www.ricardolevy.com to serve as the basis of a workshop that I will be leading on May 19, 2017 at the International Association of Management, Spirituality and Religion Conference at the University of Arkansas. The title of the article is “Dealing With Uncertainty: From the Crucible of Anxiety to the Chalice of Change — Lessons in Leadership.” The article discusses a very difficult situation I faced on a Board last year and how I managed to cope. It has led me to think deeply about my own leadership challenges and what this tells me about helping other in complex situations. My bottom line is that we ALL have in us leadership capacity. Yet so often it is deeply buried as a result of our training, life struggles, and fears. The challenge is to uncover those protective layers and let our leadership voice emerge. Two wonderful passages speak to this, and I want to share them with our Good Lifers:
From Father Ricard Rohr’s book “Eager to Love”:
Paradox held and overcome is the beginning of training in non-dual thinking or contemplation, as opposed to paradox denied, which forces us to choose only one part of any mysterious truth. Such a choice will be false because we usually choose the one that serves our small purposes.
And from Thomas Merton’s “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”:
"Again, that expression, le point vierge (I cannot translate it) comes in here. At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God written in us, as our poverty, as our indigence, as our sonship. It is like a pure diamond blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we could see it, we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that makes all darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely. I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.”
Ricardo
