Comments on: What is the difference between transformation and change? http://theshawl.wordpress.com Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:20:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Goals: Change or Transformation? « New Leaf News http://theshawl.wordpress.com/what-is-the-difference-between-transformation-and-change/#comment-15 Goals: Change or Transformation? « New Leaf News Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:35:44 +0000 http://theshawl.wordpress.com/?page_id=72#comment-15 [...] My friend and master story-teller Pamela Grenfell Smith has posted a short, thought-provoking entry titled “What’s the Difference Between Transformation and Change” [...] [...] My friend and master story-teller Pamela Grenfell Smith has posted a short, thought-provoking entry titled “What’s the Difference Between Transformation and Change” [...]

]]> By: Pamela http://theshawl.wordpress.com/what-is-the-difference-between-transformation-and-change/#comment-14 Pamela Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:01:47 +0000 http://theshawl.wordpress.com/?page_id=72#comment-14 Geeze Louise, Margaret, do I know the answer? I am way too good at giving myself assignments! Years ago I wrote down - out of some book or other - "Alertness and discipline...keep us in touch with the deepest sources of our creativity in the unconscious mind." And William Temple wrote [someplace] "Nobody ever drifted into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ." Alertness? Discipline? Intentionality? Focus? I find that there are words I can speak out loud that help me, and I'm working right now [busy little Ego!] on a personal Book of Hours that might get those words under my hand at specific times of day. Singing helps. Silence helps. But I can't write about this any more right now because I have to go dust my light bulbs. Geeze Louise, Margaret, do I know the answer? I am way too good at giving myself assignments!

Years ago I wrote down – out of some book or other – “Alertness and discipline…keep us in touch with the deepest sources of our creativity in the unconscious mind.” And William Temple wrote [someplace] “Nobody ever drifted into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”

Alertness? Discipline? Intentionality? Focus? I find that there are words I can speak out loud that help me, and I’m working right now [busy little Ego!] on a personal Book of Hours that might
get those words under my hand at specific times of day. Singing helps. Silence helps. But I can’t write about this any more right now because I have to go dust my light bulbs.

]]> By: New Leaf News http://theshawl.wordpress.com/what-is-the-difference-between-transformation-and-change/#comment-13 New Leaf News Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:32:37 +0000 http://theshawl.wordpress.com/?page_id=72#comment-13 Pamela, your list is so helpful! In my work with organizing and productivity, often the most challenging part is to uncover a client's worthy and transformative goals rather than the list of what they think would be sensible and laudable. What is your experience of "making room for God and Psyche to work"? I find that it is possible for even retreats, prayer, and meditation to be approached as tasks to be accomplished for the sake of improvement rather than opportunities for transformation. What stills the chattering voices that undermine transformative joy? All the best, Margaret Lukens Pamela, your list is so helpful! In my work with organizing and productivity, often the most challenging part is to uncover a client’s worthy and transformative goals rather than the list of what they think would be sensible and laudable.

What is your experience of “making room for God and Psyche to work”? I find that it is possible for even retreats, prayer, and meditation to be approached as tasks to be accomplished for the sake of improvement rather than opportunities for transformation. What stills the chattering voices that undermine transformative joy?

All the best, Margaret Lukens

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