You haven’t begun to understand* what surrender looks like.
*on a positive note, I don’t think it’ll be about ‘understanding’ anymore.
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*on a positive note, I don’t think it’ll be about ‘understanding’ anymore.
my bones speak
tell their rich story
of exquisite form
and elegant function
How much Resistance appears alongside your Freedom?
Half it.
Now half it again.
You get the idea.
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.