Questions to Live Into

“I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.  Don't search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.   Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

From "Letters to a Young Poet", Rainer Maria Rilke

Here are some of the questions that participants in the Presence Walkabouts are “living into”.  May you find them provocative, evocative, inspiring, and

worthy of your attention.

• What is it we require as individuals and collectives, to create and sustain environments of trust and mutual respect?

• What do we make possible when we choose to be fully present, i.e., show up,

pay attention to what matters most to us and creatively live into our questions?

•  Walking into the question, versus looking at it from afar, who am I?

•  What would positive catastrophe look like?  How can we use catastrophic events as openings for dialogue and innovative thinking?

• What is it we long for that is bigger than our fear? What is greater in us that will propel us to what is the best in us?

• What creates the willingness to be changed?

• In daily life or organizations, how can we use small pains and delights to create openings for dialogue and possibility?

• How do we extend invitations that hold the essential vision of the possibility that we see?

• What distinctions in our lives and work help us to create more possibility in terms of how we

navigate the daily challenges of leadership?