when thinking about it is pleasant,
it’s even more important to experience it,
rather than think about it
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when thinking about it is pleasant,
it’s even more important to experience it,
rather than think about it
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!
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.
When you’re doing things that are powerful beyond measure,
remember to give yourself rest, powerful beyond measure.
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