Werner's
work
is described as a rich body of distinctions, distinctions the
distinguishing of whichcatalyze,
trigger, and give access to
transformation
and the many facets of
transformation.
Werner's work
is also described as holographic. It being holographic means you
can start anywhere, at the beginning or in the middle or at the end,
and you'll still end up in the same place:
transformation.
Every component of the whole is embedded in every other component. The
whole itself is embedded in every component. You could talk about him
forever, and even then you won't have gotten close to covering all
his work.
You could say
Werner's work,
the work of
transformation,
is the process of unearthing new distinctions - which is to say it's
the process of distinguishing and speaking new
distinctions. This
languaging
is the sculptor's chisel chipping away at the marble (if you will),
revealing
transformation,
bringing it forth and making it available. So it would seem that to
make
transformation
available (in other
words,
to speaktransformation),
you would first have to become facile with the
distinctions of
transformation.
For the most part, this facility is what your
commitment
to
participate
in
Werner's work
promises and delivers.
Actually, becoming facile with the distinctions of
transformation
isn't all that's important. What's equally important (if not
more so) is this: in
participating
in the discipline of distinguishing distinctions, what comes out to
play
(so to speak), what comes forth of necessity, is the
distinguisher - if I may invent a new
word.
When the distinguisher comes out to
play,
when the distinguisher comes forth of necessity when
participating
in the discipline of distinguishing distinctions, the distinguisher
becomes practiced, strengthened, and empowered - the same as running
practices, strengthens, and empowers your legs.
Now, at the risk of my speaking becoming circuitous and
self-referential, I would also say what's important in the
discipline of distinguishing distinctions is distinguishing the
distinguisher. And
who I really am
is the distinguisher. Stated with even more
rigor,
who I really am
is the distinguisher of distinctions.
So distinguishing distinctions is actually only one important aspect
of
participating
in the discipline of bringing forth new distinctions. What's equally
important is that practicing the discipline of bringing forth new
distinctions brings forth you, the distinguisher. Said another
way, what's equally important about practicing the discipline of
distinguishing new distinctions, is it results in ie it
inexorably
leads toward distinguishing the distinguisher. When you've
distinguished the distinguisher, when you've distinguished you,
that is to say when you've distinguished the real you,
when you've brought the real you, the you
you really are
to
front and center
stage, that's
transformation.
Ergo
participating
in the discipline of distinguishing distinctions
transforms
your life.
I live a life of distinction. Another way I could say this is "I
live a distinguished life". Be careful: given our
already always
listening,
this may sound like I'm tooting my own horn. But no, I'm saying
this using the
dictionary
definition of the
word
"distinguished" - not the adjective but instead the past
participle form of the verb distinguish. When I say "I
live a distinguished life", I'm saying I've distinguished the life I
live. I don't live the life I was born into. Rather, the
life I was born into lives me. The life I live is
the life I distinguish - in other
words,
the life I live is a life of distinction. And
who I really am
is the distinguisher of my life.
Who I really am
is the distinguisher of my distinguished life.
Who I really am
is the distinguisher of this, my life of distinction.
Getting to know the real me, knowing
who I really am
as the distinguisher of my life of distinction, leaves me
free
and inspires me to come out and
play
and share.