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Jun 2, 2019
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there." --Rumi
A New Republic of the Heart
When we face a moment of crisis, individually or collectively, a whole wave of radical conversations is inevitable. For these conversations to really make a difference, we must break through our personas and our inauthentic poses. This is a deeper level of discourse than has hitherto seemed thinkable in public--disarming, tender, and authentic. Such a conversation requires a level of trust, vulnerability, and truthfulness that our culture seems to preclude, and we tend to shy away from it. The courageous vulnerability to speak and listen at this level is profoundly humbling. We have to speak from the place of not knowing and curiosity. We have to listen with an open mind and a soft heart. Terry Patten invites us to meet him in this place of not knowing, so that we may enter the profound shared experience of creating a republic of the heart.
BE THE CHANGE
Start your own radical conversation. Reflect on where there is a sense of urgency in your life. Then ask one or more people to sit with you with the intention drawn out of your comfort zones into something deeper and more real, meaningful, and rewarding.
