And there’s our tragedy, that we have to resolve all mystery. We can’t let it be. We can’t rejoice in it. We can’t celebrate it. We can’t affirm it as an aspect of our lives. Because, after all, mystery is an aspect of our lives.*
Robert Coles

The self is the ultimate mystery, because no matter where you grab hold, it shifts, expands, evolves, evaporates, and leaks off into the shadows down below and light up above. If myth accomplishes only one thing, it is to expose human beings as multidimensional creatures.**
Deepak Chopra

I ask people to take a journey into
who they are but do not know, appreciating that to do this
only increases their mystery;
None of us is optimising our life –
Although it may seem so on the outside where we’re stretched, short of time, and
ready to snap –
Beneath the surface there are depths and widths to call upon,
A vastness to both discover and develop.

I recently asked a group of educators on their awayday to create
a doodle-image of themselves, and then, for the following week,
To develop this image each day with a text stating
something they are good at;
I am intrigued, then, to find this is Jean Houston’s advice in
her already excellent book The Wizard of Us
(I’m only on page 23 and am loving it),
So I leave this with you,
To create a doodle-image of yourself
(my own is in today’s doodle), and then
develop it over the next week –
Head, head and shoulders, front-on, side-on, full length –
Including a text declaring something that you’re good at –
If I can help, let me know
(that’s why I’m here).

*Krista Tippett’s Becoming Wise;
**Jean Houston’s The Wizard of Us.