Found a fabulous interview with Margaret Wheatley this morning at Voice America Business. I transcribed the beginning of this inspirational and transformational conversation.
The interview begins with a discussion about the meaning of spiritual warriorship and fearlessness.
Fearlessness means not being afraid of who you are. Not being afraid of our own visions – our own goodness – our own capacities. Think about whether you see yourself as a spiritual warrior at these times.
If we think that everything can be fine again just as it was – then what we need to do is just fix or repair existing systems, fix public education systems, fix health care systems. What that implies is that these systems are basically okay. By that I mean, their basic assumptions, their ways of operation, their beliefs about people –all of those assumptions are fine and its just our task to repair them.
The reason I go to the spiritual warrior or pioneers is if you don’t think things are repairable and that these systems are in a state of necessary collapse – then the question becomes “What’s my work?” If I’m not going to go in there and fix things then what’s my work?
That’s where spiritual warriorship and fearlessness comes in. Because it’s a very difficult, lonely role. It means you are going to try and embody the future even as we live through this very difficult time. You’re going to be a champion for human goodness. You’re going to be a champion for the human spirit knowing that work can be done in ways that inspire us and engage us.
But you’re going to be out of the mainstream and therefore it calls for a quality of fearlessness that has not been asked of us previously.
