{"id":6120,"date":"2019-05-27T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2019-05-27T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:41:35","slug":"to-hold-your-work-free-from-both-hope-and-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6120","title":{"rendered":"To Hold Your Work Free from both Hope and Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking up the source of the story about Yitzhak Perlman<\/a>, I found it came from a piece by Margaret Wheatley called \u201cEight Fearless Questions.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Quoting Perlman: \u201cYou know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”<\/p>\n

Sometimes, it is our task to find out how much music we can make with what we have left. What is the name that is big enough to hold your fearlessness, that is big enough to\u00a0call<\/i>\u00a0you into fearlessness? That is big enough to break your heart? To allow you to open to the suffering that is this world right now and to not become immobilized by fear and to not become immobilized by comfort? What is the way in which you can hold your work so that you\u00a0do<\/i>\u00a0feel free from hope…. and therefore free from fear?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before that she says:<\/p>\n

Can we find a way to be motivated, to be energetic, to be happy; to take delight in the work that we’re doing that isn’t based on outcomes, that isn’t based on needing to see a particular result? Is that even available?<\/p>\n

What if we could offer our work as a gift so lightly, and with so much love, that\u00a0that’s <\/i>really the source of fearlessness? We don’t need it to be accepted in any one way. We don’t need it to create any certain outcome. We don’t need it to be any one thing. It is in the way we\u00a0offer<\/i>\u00a0it, that the work transforms us. It is in the way we\u00a0offer<\/i>\u00a0our work as a\u00a0gift<\/i>\u00a0to those we love, to those we care about, to the issues we care about. It is in the way we\u00a0offer<\/i>\u00a0the work that we find fearlessness. Beyond hope and fear, I think, is the possibility of love.<\/p>\n

What would it take for us to just deal with what is? To not need to be always engaged in changing the world?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cTo offer our work as a gift\u201d \u2014 this is how I teach circle dance.\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s why I\u2019m not concerned with how I look, or how well I teach, but only in offering something I love in a way that others can enjoy it.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo not need to be always engaged in changing the world\u201d \u2014 for me that means giving up the need to \u201cprove that I deserve to live.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>By the way, when I teach dance, the question of whether I deserve to live just disappears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking up the source of the story about Yitzhak Perlman, I found it came from a piece by Margaret Wheatley called \u201cEight Fearless Questions.\u201d Quoting Perlman: \u201cYou know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,19,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-circle-dance","category-interesting-link","category-present-day","category-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}