You can prepare. You can contemplate. You can weigh options, and list pros and cons. You can do a cost/benefit analysis. But if you’re on the end of the high dive, at some point you have to jump.
What do you dream of leaping toward?
Category: Meditations
Be Like a Bird
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
—Victor Hugo
What gives you a sense of security that allows you rest in precarious places?
Taking Time
Why is it that we frequently “take time,” but we never “give time”? We only say, in the negative, that someone wouldn’t give us the time of day. Take your time, certainly, but why not try giving some as well?
Who will you give time to today?
On the Treadmill
Some kinds of change come in a flash of inspiration or a bolt that strikes you from the blue. Some changes come from just staying on the treadmill, committing to doing something for the long haul, even if it’s not dramatic or exciting.
What transformation are you working for over the long haul?
Dancing Through Doorways
We seek not rest but transformation.
We are dancing through each other as doorways.
—Marge Piercy
How do you serve as a doorway to someone else’s transformation?