Let's talk about a conundrum of communication...

Some of the most potent and significant developments in our lives begin from the unconscious and invisible and rise to show themselves in the visible world of our behavior and emotional states.

The difficulty is that language is almost always developed as a response to sensory experiences...the visible world. For this and other reasons, some of the most important developments we want to achieve exist outside the realm of language.

They are sensory experiences we struggle to describe. They are pictures in our mind that aren't easily expressed with words.

So in our attempt to produce and reproduce potent transformation, language is almost always reductionistic. The words are impoverished as compared to the reality.

The gift of learning to describe and communicate potent transformational experience is an important and yet elusive process.

Another barrier is when people who have not had the actual experience use someone else's words to describe or affect change. Listeners receive a mere shadow of the true experience available. In religion this is called legalism.

Both the heart experience and the struggle to break out of the limitations of language are crucial to communicate and reproduce experiences of deep transformation.