Life doesn’t ask permission or wait for us to be ready. It unfolds in stillness and upheaval, tenderness and destruction, beginnings and endings. We can’t control the whole of it, but we can choose how fully we meet it.
Category: Journal Entries
thoughts, ponderings, experiences and lessons learned. or, something deep and life-changing.
We spend so much of our lives chasing stimulation, absorbing other people’s narratives, and trying to keep up that we can lose touch with the quiet knowing beneath it all. The world is full of noise, but the deeper problem may be how readily we surrender our attention to it. Somewhere beyond the distraction lies a more authentic way of seeing, living, and relating to one another.
Most of us will go through life on a fairly predictable trajectory. It would take a concerted effort to live outside of the established parameters of what came before, doubly so because we learn most my modeling, training, and educating by the same means and influences.
Emergence Again and again You wash over me Surround and Drown me Immersive Bubbling froth Sweet chaos And overwhelm Resistance Is wasteful And moot As…
We can spend so much time worrying about whether we’re living our purpose that we forget to live. The pressure to become who we imagine we’re meant to be can be just as paralyzing as never daring to try. Perhaps the trick isn’t to have it all figured out, but to meet ourselves where we are and take the next step from there.