There are ideas we encounter that seem to explain everything for a time. They give shape to questions we’ve carried for years, offer language for things we’ve sensed but couldn’t articulate, or open doors into entirely new ways of seeing. But even the most compelling idea can become another place to stop moving. What once expanded us can eventually become another boundary if we become too attached to it.
Tag: attachment
We spend so much of our lives trying to arrive somewhere other than where we are. We measure the present against what we remember, what we expected, or what we imagine might yet come, rarely considering that nothing essential has gone missing in the meantime. Perhaps the invitation was never to perfect the circumstances of our lives, but to become present enough to recognize what has been unfolding through them all along.
When it comes to pursuing “the dream”, we have at least four ways available to us…
Have your preferences, but remain open. If you never get to — or have yet to — experience exactly what you’ve always wanted, how do you even know it’s actually what you want?
No book is complete. In fact, your imagination and belief structure are constantly filling in gaps and interpreting words and ideas, based on the perspective of one author (or council, agency, sect, special interest, or society) filtered and remade through your perception again.