Sublime

Archetype 3: Speaking the Unspeakable

ACTIVE CURIOSITY.

It is the function of education to introduce the student to the terrifying unknown and provide not only the intellectual skills to make known the unknown but the emotional stability to withstand the terror when the unknown cannot be made known. Such an experience gives the student the self-confidence to go forth and face that mystery which lies at

we do not look on nature as a sequence of changing scenes but look on ourselves as persons in passage.

there is little possibility of achieving constructive, sustained governance with existing concepts of organization. People everywhere are growing desperate for renewed sense of community.

TAKING STOCK When was that last time you risked it all to become way more than you are now? How do you get in your own way? Are you waiting for others to give you permission to be great? If you were living life more authentically, what would you be doing differently? How would you be different? Are you are prepared to live in the world with its har

history: (1) Within every person there is a hunger to exercise some sense of personal agency—to have an effect, to contribute, to make a positive difference, to influence, help, build—and in this sense to lead.

INTERVENE.

This desire for intellectual exploration with others has been a big theme on my journey. But not until I added hope to my critical thinking and embraced a more expansive view of the world did I attract the kind of people I wanted to welcome into my conversation. In my first couple of months in Taiwan, I read a book on writing by William Zinsser. He