(10000 Awake)
As long as I can remember, I've felt drawn to 'get to the bottom of things'. To reach beyond initial impressions. There have been moments when 'beyond' took me all the way through (and into) the boundless territory, of The Unknown.
On such occasions--much like 'Alice in Wonderland'--I've discovered a surprising 'place', with no words and no dimension. The following video snippet, is me trying to put words to it anyway!
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Maurissa Afanador has produced a series of video-interviews where folks describe their own transformative experience of profound insight, or gradual realization. She captures the unique flavor of each individual encounter--as it embraces a common thread--something I imagine you might also recognize in yourself.
10000 Awake is a lovely site where these stories are available to enjoy. You may have something to add--or simply be curious to view some of these homologous, yet uniquely personal, experiences.
"...Making
ourselves visible
arranges for a different kind
of disappearance
into
the work, the task, the audience,
the life that opens up, where the
fearful one
who first dreamt
is burned away by anticipation
and a living
contact with a future
we might want to call our own…
making ourselves
visible enables us
firstly to be found
and then invited in,
by the world
we desire..."
David Whyte
Adapted from
Crossing the Unknown Sea:
Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity.
Riverhead © David Whyte
