DeepInsights: The Coach -The River Cannot Go Back
Though he considered himself to be mainly a painter, Lebanon-born writer and artist?Kahlil Gibran?became known for his mystical Arabic and English works, here is one of the most profound wisdom – A profound lesson in Coaching
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It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever. But there is no other way.
The river cannot go back. Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
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