Monday
At The Heart
By Ron Schultz
member and practitioner at the Los Angeles, CA sangha
Finding the words that convey the opening of one’s heart and the transformation of one’s existence seems like a better task for a Gershwin or a Porter than a Schultz. But nonetheless, it is mine.
I never expected this to arise. I certainly knew who Archbishop Desmund Tutu was and what his accomplishments were, but I had never been in his presence prior to my recent trip to the Skoll World Forum at Oxford University. For those who don’t know, the Skoll World Forum is something put on each year by Jeff Skoll, co-founder of eBay, who took his gazillions and created the Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Each year the foundation puts on a gathering of 800 invited delegates to come and spend three days networking and learning together.
Nonetheless, through the beneficence of a variety of benefactors, I arrived in Oxford from London’s Paddington Station on the Great Western train, and returned three days later, quite different from before.
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