Fact Checking the Masters’ Stories: One

Self-doubt is not a tsunami that sweeps you up, threatens to crack you into a thousand tiny fragments and turn your refined gait into a jerky mess, and then finally departs, forever vanquished, into the ethers, leaving you under a fig tree to enjoy enlightenment.

Self-doubt lives in every moment, it inhabits the very triumphs it denounces. This, cohabitating with Mara, is the enlightenment Siddhartha enjoyed. It’s yours too, and mine.

Welcome to The Paradox, baby!

Say Yes

Look at all the sacred scriptures, yours and mine.

Consider graffiti and cross stitch and your journal entries and doodles and numbers scribbled on the back of matchbooks.

You’ll be reminded that

it’s never about becoming anything.

It’s about saying Yes.

Again and again and again.

where do you live?

willing to inhabit Evolutionary Road

unstationary compassless

wiling to step right or to step left off the stoop each morning and

resist editing the desire to cross the street

willing to call home someplace new each night