Get Your Premium Membership

Fame Not Required

My great challenge for fruitful wisdom paths is credentialed expertise. My obstacle to polypathic health is self-aggrandizing comfort, cheap ease, self-sufficiency, detachment. Obstacles to resilient compassion have more to do with impatient "kindness" than diligently interdependent pursuits of transparently vulnerable integrity of deep and wide resonance, seeking consilience of timeless cooperative wisdom. When my wisdom circles of dialogue discussion sacred discernment turn to topics of public administration, political science, persuasion theory, nonviolent communication systems, positive psychology, multicultural mediation, cooperative economics, game theory, systems theory, group theory, attachment theory, polyvagal theory, experiential math, permaculture design, comparative religion, Restorative Justice, When these tools within my belt of personal knowledge are invited to work cooperatively together to achieve resilient and resonant multicultural wisdom, Problems begin when I expect to speak unilaterally and to be listened to, settling for sufficiency of my credentialed expertise, my zero-zone experience, my health-wealth advocacy, rather than searching for shared wisdom cooperatively educational democratically developmental trans-formative sociological neurological ecological theological geological biological... Cooperative fame prefers becoming known for our active love of one another exhaling out to encompass all wisdom circles More powerful healthier wealthier and famous rather than infamous punishingly ideological monoculturing squares of resistance to healthy spatial balance and wealthy temporal flow.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

A comment has not been posted for this poem. Encourage a poet by being the first to comment.


Book: Reflection on the Important Things