There is a whole layer to our experience that exists beyond the capacity of words and logic. And because that layer pushes our human understanding to its max, we tend to respond to it with fear. But the world does not cease to exist when we close our eyes. We learn that as children. Rooms that we have never been in before did not begin when we first set foot in them... or did they???
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Part of the paradox of being human is that our individual way of viewing the world is the most real thing to us. AND it’s not Truth with a capital T. To think it is is to prove that part of us has never grown up- part of us still believes the world ceases to exist if we stop looking.
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Things are incredibly uncertain right now and many of us are having *our* fundamental views of the world challenged. The best thing we can possibly do is build our capacity to tolerate (and even dance in) the space that is unknowable. To build our resiliency to stay with what feels uncomfortable or scary to us. To build trust in ourselves so we can better navigate the space beyond our comfort zone.
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Where in your life are you shutting your eyes to something you hope will then just go away? What is the cost to that? Where is you avoiding something that might be uncomfortable to you? How can you start to build your capacity to be with discomfort? What then might be possible? And what is your relationship to the space beyond words, the space out of sight? Is it fear? Excitement? A combination of things? What are some ways you can start to cultivate more of a relationship with place? What would it be like to live with that space just as real and valid as the one we see and touch and speak of? Move gently into these deep questions. Keep both feet on the ground.
July 13, 2020