52 Weeks of InfiniteFulfillment: Week 34 – Entering The Final Third Of 52 Weeks, How Will You Participate?

June 23rd, 2010 by Kathleen

‘And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.’….Rainer Maria Rilke

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As we head into the final third of 52 Weeks of InfiniteFulfillment, it seems a perfect time  to re-presence the idea behind this series of blogposts and weekly inquiries and to re-iterate the invitation to not only read each post but to participate in the inquiry in your individual life.

Each week includes reflection and thoughts on a topic that has arisen through my work in QuintessentialYou Design.  In writing on the topic, an inquiry emerges.  This question is posted at the close of each post.

With the question comes an inherent invitation to participate with the QuintessentialYou community by living the question.  Living the question does not mean answering the inquiry from an intellectual or thoughtful place.  Rather, this is an invitation to live the question in your day to day life, be disciplined in your noticing, and allow life itself to lead you and to reveal ideas and answers specific to your life and relevant to you.

In my experience, having my community participate with me makes for intriguing conversation and rich development, individually and collectively.  Sharing the conversation expands the conversation and its impact.  So, I invite you to invite others to journey with you and to tell us about your exploration experience by adding your comments to the site.

This week’s question to live – our living question asks us to consider our own approach in life:

How do I participate in my own InfiniteFulfillment?

52 Weeks of InfiniteFulfillment: Week 33 – We Get The Result We’re Committed To

June 15th, 2010 by Kathleen

‘I’m noticing I get the result I’m committed to’

Receiving and Giving are inextricably linked.  For giving to be relevant, there must be a receiver.  For receiving to be appreciated, a context of giver must be held.

In giving and receiving, a state of being is called forward.  The state of being associated with each of these differs one from the other.  They look distinct and yet they act as one – the giver gives – the receiver receives, in turn giving back to the giver – an infinite movement back and forth, in and around.  If the cycle stops at any juncture, the movement ceases and expansion is interrupted, even halted.

We are always both – Receiver and Giver…. and not always present to both.

Beyond the circumstance of what is given and received, through each act we are offered the opportunity of presence to what is here in front of us right now and the chance to experience and express gratitude for the exchange itself.  Each and every time this process completes its round, we are faced with a new frontier, an opening to witness what wants to be seen and acted upon.  There are no exceptions to this.  Our present environment and all its circumstances offer us a chance to see and an invitation to act as a means to receiving the vision we hold.

Where our result is ambiguous, so too our commitment.  There is no escape.  In EveryBody and EveryThing as Receiver and as Giver, through the face of other and the result that is here, we are put on notice to our committment.

Reminding us that we get the result we’re committed to, this week’s InfiniteFulfillment question to live – our living question  asks us to have a look in each of our lives and to consider:

What’s ambiguous?