The core of all navigation is probably uncertainty: tolerating not knowing makes it possible to find your way. Not knowing means embracing what is not known rather than fighting with yourself over it. Since the mind always strives to know, not knowing is disorienting in a useful way. Uncertainty and not knowing teach you not to believe the stories your mind feeds you day in and day out. If you allow your own course to be mysterious, then even the hard things can become easy. This is the beginning of awakening.
John Tarrant, Surprises on the Way
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Thank you for sharing. I long have been trying to make friends with uncertainty and ambiguity. One if the hardest things to do! Making slow progress nevertheless 🙂
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The ultimate obstacle. Thank you for the reminder that there is nothing to worry about.
Not knowing…
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits, nevertheless, calmly licking its chops. – H. L. Mencken
When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality–the reality, I tell you–fades. The inner truth is hidden–luckily, luckily. But I felt it all the same; I felt often its mysterious stillness watching me. . . . – Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
The mysterious stillness that watches I feel it sometimes, watching me. And sometimes I ask it to guide me And sometimes it does.
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. – Basho
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times Come, yet again, come, come. – Rumi