The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

April 1Entrepreneur as Poet

Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the plowed field? The plowman who does not look beyond its boundaries and does not raise his eyes from the ground? No—but the poet who sees that field in its relations with the universe, and looks oftener to the sky than on the ground. Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, their dreaming must not be out of proportion to their waking!

Margaret Fuller—Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

How is it that you describe what you do? Would you ever think of what you do as poetry, a weaving of sights and sounds into an entrepreneurial field of dreams? Perhaps no, but though you may never communicate using fanciful words or rhymes, there is an art to raising your eyes from the work that appears in front of you every day in an effort to observe the state of your vision.

Your vision is connected in many ways to every other thing in the universe. You don't have to ascribe to a special brand of faith to witness this. Simply observe what happens when you stop, step back, quiet yourself, and listen.

Not for the noise, but for the silence.

Silence is often referred to as the absence of noise, but if you choose you could begin today to see it as the unification of all sound, the joining of sound and soundlessness that has the power to connect your vision to every particle in the universe.

This connection is the ultimate goal of meditation, and when you begin to seek silence in this way, you ...