Session 18 – Risk
October, 2008
Chalice: It doesn’t work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
American Proverb
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Reading: “If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”Annie Dillard
Life Questions:
- What is the greatest risk you’ve ever taken?
- How do you weigh whether or not a risk is worth taking?
- What are some of the losses you have experienced by taking risks?
- Do you think change always involves risk? Can you think of examples when it hasn’t?Closing ritual
We extinguish this flame but not the light of truth,
The warmth of community
Or the fire of commitment
These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.
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Session 18 Quotations - October, 2008
Risk
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Thomas A. Edison
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laugher, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf
The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
W.E.B. Du Bois
You’ve go to o out on a limb sometimes because that is where the fruit is.
Will Rogers
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear…It’s like being between trapezes. It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to.
Marilyn Ferguson
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide