We’re all haunted by something deep inside of us, and often a lot of our best work is the result of trying to come to terms with this.*
gapingvoid

It’s our interpretation of, and approach to, our past that generates resilience … “Do not become a victim of your past.**
Vitor Strecher and Henry Nyombi

The past is never past – because of
how it records itself within us,
We know it is here in the present and is
capable of shaping the future;
How we live with it, then,
Is everything, as Brother Nassim would remind us,
It is not only possible to grow ourselves beyond being
reactive to our past – overcome by it,
Even more than being resilient to it –
more than bouncing back, we are capable
of using the past to be more, become stronger:
Wind extinguishes a candle and energises fire …
You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.^

*gapingvoid’s blog: Spiritual Redemption;
**Victor Strecher’s Life on Purpose (230), quoting Henry Nyombi;
^Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile (3).