To be human is to be a conversation between what we think we know and the great mystery that surrounds us.
We are not here to conquer that mystery, but to live inside it, to let it shape us, to let it ask its impossible questions of us.
David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
On this path, no effort is ever lost, nor can any harm come.
Even a little progress on this path is complete freedom from fear
Bhagavad Gita 2.40
Commentary by Gandhi: Even a little effort at selfless service saves one from the fear of being meaningless or useless.
The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anyone really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Ken Kesey
We tend to think life should be the way we want it to be, the way we planned. But often, things don’t turn out that way.
In fact, they rarely do. And there’s wisdom in not expecting life to turn out the way we think or feel it ought to.
There’s wisdom in understanding that we are essentially clueless
Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, I May Be Wrong: And Other Wisdoms From Life as a Forest Monk
To get somewhere new, we must change the direction we are going right now
The first invitation is just to stop entirely the conversation that you’ve been having until now
and meet what is arriving without naming or planning.
Just to hear and feel the annunciation of a new energy, a new life.
David Whyte
Hope has holes
in its pockets.
It leaves little
crumb trails
so that we,
when anxious,
can follow it.
Hope’s secret:
it doesn’t know
the destination –
it knows only
that all roads
begin with one
foot in front
of the other.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, American poet, Hope’s Secret
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