Leave the door open for the unknown,
the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come
from, where you came from, and where you will go. . . The things we want
are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on
the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration
-- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about
extending the boundaries of self into unknown territory. How do you
calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the
role of the unforeseen, of keeping balance amid surprises, of
collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are essential
mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to
control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the
paradoxical operation that life requires of us.
That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost.
That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost.
- Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
