I have long been an admirer of failure. Many of the greatest talents were born of great failure. Einstein, Babe Ruth, the Wright brothers, Ghandi and many healers did not appear to have natural gifts in the beginning. What they did have was persistence, a willingness to do the work, whatever it took.
There is saying that genius is 99% perspiration and only 1% inspiration. I suspect there is wisdom in that. It follows I think that to scale the heights one must love the mountain, love the journey as well as the goal. And be not to attached to the goal as its attainment might present itself a bit differently than expected.
Of course one can never fail if one does not try. In a story reminiscent of Edison, recounted in a book titled How to Heal the Sick, the authoress recounts her "calling" to heal. She also reports her attempts to do so numbered about 10,000 times with no results, until one day people started walking away from their wheel chairs and the red tipped canes of the blind were discarded. This was a lady of simple faith and extraordinary persistence who did not have the benefit of science backed research or the pragmatic systems many of us have available to us today.
Here in EME we have fiercely argued over the method and mechanism of healing. In so doing, " We have met the enemy and he is us" as the character Pogo said. Perhaps we take ourselves to seriously and our work to lightly. We are perhaps all wounded healers seeking a resolution to a pain we can not see. Perhaps it is a primal pain of feeling our own separation. In finding our own way to deal with this, let us at least cleave to the fundamental ethic of Hippocrates to "Do No Harm." In building this on-line dream community of healers I am sure we will fail many times to live into our founding principles. Yet we must never give up nor give in to compromise.
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