looking ahead

The future we are so worried about controlling begins to unfold smoothly, in a way it cannotwhen we are operating with such tension—always reaching, seeking, pursuing, resisting—instead of being, receiving, and allowing.

But what we discovered by honing in clearly on what he genuinely wanted was that what he was (unconsciously) seeking was simply showing up with greater devotion to what already existed in his life.

Pleasure doesn’t have to be loud, or messy. It was there in everything, in the stillness and even in the uncertainty itself. I was remaking my life. I was writing my way through it.

The opposite of an unfolding is a vision. A vision springs, not from a careful understanding of a context, but from a fantasy: if you could just make it into another context your problems will go away.

But what’s different now is that I no longer delay my life for the next best thing. I choose the next thing and make it the best.

“It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted—you’ll be afraid to let things keep happening.”

what of it is yours, and what is not?

I want a life where timelines bend to my becoming.

Slowing downwards creates opportunities to dwell more deeply in one’s life, for the home we are looking for in this world is within us all along. The lost home that we are seeking is ourselves; it is the story we carry within our soul.” — Michael Meade