http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:49:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © 2011 info@rulesofengaging.com info@rulesofengaging.com 1440 http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog 144 144 info@rulesofengaging.com no no http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/2010/08/13/eight-questions/ http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/2010/08/13/eight-questions/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:39:38 +0000 trdassociates http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/?p=2197 What is happening to our nation where everyone has answers, but few have questions? Where talking heads preach, politicians agitate, and religious leaders are befuddled? Where people rage in fear as they chase shadows? Where strength is measured in sales and wealth — not character and courage? Where listening is a forgotten art and interruption routine? Where curiosity is overwhelmed by ignorance? Where welcome was once extended boldly to the beleaguered? Where thanks were offered in community solemnly for our blessings and the liberty earned, shared and tested? Share on Facebook ]]> http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/2010/08/13/eight-questions/feed/ 0 http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/2009/05/06/beyond-reality/ http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/2009/05/06/beyond-reality/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 14:12:41 +0000 trdassociates http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/?p=562 Beyond Reality Your cell phone Just died dark, No final word. I can’t reach you, You can’t reach me; We’re out of touch. Still silence engulfs me, In hummm I mouth, Dispatch love, Then listen close, Tuning delicate For your reply. Cloud wisps aloft Drift by deliberate, I sense you deep Just behind A shift – curtain, Beyond reality. Share on Facebook ]]> http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/2009/05/06/beyond-reality/feed/ 0 http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/2006/10/24/rule-1/ http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/2006/10/24/rule-1/#comments Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:15:09 +0000 trdassociates http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/?p=10 From soon-to-be published Rules For Engaging Grief: A Journey To Further Still the following is one of the thirty-nine rules, together with the reflection and exercise for your consideration. Share your thoughts, if you are so moved. Rule # 4 — Awakening in a “dark wood” as Dante writes in the opening lines of the Divine Comedy – be assured that you are not lost. Reflection — In the time immediately after Donna’s passing, I began rereading David Whyte’s The Heart Aroused[1]. Whyte is a Welch poet who resides in the United States and conducts seminars for the business community, introducing concepts on how to encourage a creative environment among corporate managers. The translation above is taken from Whyte’s translation of Dante’s opening lines. I could immediately identify with the words because indeed I was in middle life – even later unless I was to equal in years some of the biblical elders – and I had found myself on a life path that I did not expect and for which I was unprepared. Further, my surroundings were dark indeed without Donna. It was not long after rediscovering this passage and identifying with its description of my situation when I learned from a colleague that a therapist worked with him using the Divine Comedy to heal his Vietnam-inducted post-traumatic stress syndrome. As I reflected deeply on the passage, I learned much about myself and coping with my situation. Most of all, I learned that I was not lost – just disoriented in the new surroundings. I came to accept that I was where I was supposed to be. I wondered where I had heard this truth before, perhaps from one of Tom Brown’s books[2] outlining the initiation process in a vision quest. This same colleague counseled me to remain for a time “in the wood” – there was no rush to exit. And so, I became determined to take it all in — the sounds of my racing heart, the smell of fear, the void of [...]]]> http://www.rulesofengaging.com/leading_from_the_heart_blog/2006/10/24/rule-1/feed/ 0