The feeling of being from an alien world passes after a few hours or a few days. Thereafter, we will spend a good space of time at our mundane life, fueled by the energy we gathered on our journey to home and practising interim union with soul through the practice of solitude.*
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

We are both the authors and the actors. We can shape the plot but not fully. We can toss aside the script but not always. We live at the intersection of free will and circumstance.**
Daniel Pink

You have discovered or uncovered
some astonishing truths about who you are
and what you can do –
These have always been there, but you have seen them now
because you have made your approach
from a different direction.^

As exciting as these revelations are,
They begin to wain when you
reimmerse yourself in the ordinary-everyday,
Where you have to figure out how to employ
your new self-knowledge in the world of
“this is just the way it is.”

No myth or guide for the way has ever said that
this will be easy – that it’s taken this long to come upon this
new self-knowledge is evidence of this – but
what circumstance and script respect is
the person of solitude consistently growing
in their integrity,^^ wholeness, and perseverance.

*Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With the Wolves;
**Daniel Pink’s The Power of Regret;
^My dreamwhispering work is one kind of different direction – contact me at geoffreybaines@gmail.com to find out more;
^^By integrity, I mean connectedness to self, others, Earth, and god – if you believe.