[Ailist] Re: "staying positive"

[Howard Ditkoff]

Rob,

Life-giving can't be it can it? I mean we all die. It is unsustainable for any of us to always be alive. Part of health is learning to embrace aging and death. Furthermore, how can it be unsustainable to have what is life-giving at the expense of what is life-giving for another in a world where we only survive by eating other plants and/or animals, thus exchanging their lives for ours? In fact, it's the exact opposite. What's unsustainable is to constantly try to live, rather than see ourselves as part of a constant exchange of life for life over time.

Wholeness, on the other hand, seems always to fit. Even as you age, so that parts of you are deteriorating, you can still aim to be whole, to be all that you presently are.

Best,
Howard
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Voyle" <rob at voyle.com>
To: "Howard Ditkoff" <howard at emergentassociates.com>; "Howard Ditkoff" <howard at emergentassociates.com>; <ailist at lists.business.utah.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Ailist] Re: "staying positive"


> Hi Howard
> 
> I would go with what is life-giving.
> When things are truly life-giving, they are life-giving for me, for you and the 
> world.  It is not sustainable to have what is life-giving at the expense of what is 
> life-giving for another.
> 
> Rob
>  
> Robert J. Voyle, Psy.D.
> Director, Clergy Leadership Institute
> For Coaching and Training in Appreciative Inquiry
> Author: Core Elements of the Appreciative Way 
> http://www.clergyleadership.com/
> 503-647-2378 or 503-647-2382
> 
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