Yes We Can! by Marc Gafni

In an interview, John Lennon dotingly tells about the first time he met his wife Yoko Ono. He had heard that Yoko was having an art show in London. It was to be quite a happening. He recalls admiringly the moment that got him hooked: 

So I went and there was a little white ladder that led up to the ceiling. There was a little hanging magnifying glass and something written on the ceiling. So I picked it up and looked through it at the writing. And what was written was “YES”. If it had been something like, ‘rip-off’ or something negative I would have left…. But it was positive and loving and so I stuck around.

The rest is history…quite literally. The greatest of love affairs can begin with a simple imprint of Yes.

We live in a “No” culture. As my friend Michael Lerner once wrote, we have a surplus of powerlessness. We think it is not possible. When an idea or new direction comes up our first response is why it can’t work. We are brilliant at it. Even the most simple minded person becomes a genius when it comes to saying no. We can think up twenty reason why it will not work before we can think up two reason why it could work.  We are have all become Dr. No with advanced degrees in how to say no.

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