the in between
Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space we have the power to choose. In that choice is our growth and transformation.
(Victor Frankl)
Once you have perspective, you can decide which way to go. Though sometimes you have to move in order to know where you are. And sometimes when you move, it will seem that the landscape is moving too.
(Break.up by Joanna Walsh)
we often get caught in the illusion that arriving at a predetermined destination will end the mental agitation of feeling in-between.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche • In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
“There is a sweet spot between the known and the unknown where originality happens; the key is to be able to linger there without panicking.”
Seth Godin • The Song of Significance
between stimulus and response there is a space
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
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
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
The space between no longer and not yet is what defines the pivot periods of our lives. This is the time when we have nothing left to hold onto but also nowhere clearly to land.
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
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
It’s confusing to be alive and be A Thing moving through the world. You are always different things to different people.