Replying to LO29861 --
Dear Organlearners,
Andrew Campbell < ACampnona@aol.com > writes:
>Dear Mr Ovid;-),
>
>Here's something to add to your...
>
>"Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I
>ought to do it, but few have made me want to do something."
>by Mary Parker Follett, in The New State
Greetings dear Andrew,
Thank you.
What synchronicity! Just yesterday Chris Klopper visited me. As usual our
thoughts jumped like a cat on a hot tin roof. Among other things we talked
about a company which should transform into a LO to be able to meet the
demands of the future.
Chris mentioned how much he appreciated your painstakedly typing of
information on Follet. I appreciate it too.
Chris also commented on the profound difference between 'can do it' (in
Afrikaans "kan dit doen") and 'want to do it' (in Afrikaans "wil dit
doen"). A person can have the kowledge to do something, but if that person
does not have the will power, no action will result.
So what fuels the will power? I think that foremost in the line is
passion.
>"The ableness of this work is oned to the work itself, without
>separation: so that whoso feeleth this work is also able thereto,
>and none else. Insomuch, that without this work a soul is as it
>were dead, and cannot covet or desire it. For as much as thou
>willest and desirest it, so much hast thou of it, and no more and
>no less: And yet it is no will, nor desire, but a thing thou knowest
>never what. I pray thee: But do forth ever more and more, so
>that thou be ever doing."
Passion for an action emerges when one commits oneself wholesome to that
action. Wholeness, like all the other six 7Es (seven essentialties of
creativity) is prerequisite to passion. Passion itself is rather a
dynamical property. It can be described as having enough free energy to do
something. This free energy is generated by emergences and digestions --
"doing more and more and more to keep on doing"
With care and best wishes,
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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