What Question Can Change Your Life in 2011?

Tuesday January 18, 2011 I love poetry and I want to take this opportunity to wish a great 2011 to all my friends with the verses of David Whyte, a poet that has brought his talent into the field of organizational development. I read his verses often in my work with groups and find his words graceful and energetic at the same time. This poem touches on the theme of the questions that waits us, those fateful questions that have the potential - if properly asked and given enough time - to make a difference in our life and work.   Enyoy! To your great questions!   back to top SOMETIMES Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest breathing like the ones in the old stories who could cross a shimmering bed of dry leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests conceived out of nowhere but in this place beginning to lead everywhere. Requests to stop what you are doing right now, and to stop what you are becoming while you do it, questions that can make or unmake a life, questions that have patiently waited for you, questions that have no right to go away. David Whyte   back to top