💡 the in between

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“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
– allyi

Facing the void feels so overwhelming because it is the birthplace of limitless possibility. It is the place of potential new life, and the repository of the old.

Lucy H. Pearce • Creatrix: she who makes

what matters resides in relationships rather than things – between us, rather than within us.

James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

It’s easy to define ourselves by the empty spaces, the ways in which we lack. And yet those are not always gaps within us waiting to be filled, rather, the simple contrast between all we are and all we were never meant to be.

Brianna Wiest • When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

What do I mean by ‘betweenness'? Think about the nature of music. Music does not exist in one particular note – which is in itself meaningless; or in a lot of such single notes, each in itself meaningless. I am tempted to say it exists more in the spaces than in the notes: the spaces between successive notes in pitch that creates the melody, the

Iain McGilchrist • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning

The in between is where it happens.

Alex Dobrenko • The secret place AI can't see

I’ve found myself wanting to get out of the liminal place I’ve been floating in — wanting it to be done already, wanting to arrive in clarity, wanting to feel more certain or sure about what I’m supposed to be doing and how I should be doing it. Part of me feels like this pressure to “get there” comes from the false belief that there is anywhere... See more

Lisa Olivera • Ten things, part five

Before we can move forward, we have to make space for what’s ending and sit in the uncertainty that follows. That uncomfortable, in-between space—the neutral zone, the abyss—isn’t a problem to solve. It’s where change and realignment happens.

Sitting in lostness can feel excruciating for ambitious types who are so used to doing. But when you’re lost... See more