To see the world clearly is one kind of bravery. To see ourselves clearly is another.*
AleXander McManus
I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anymore, because where I am folded, I am a lie.**
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is not about
what I will be when
unfolded–
I doubt I will
ever see this
in one lifetime–
But it is in
my willingness
to unfold, sometimes
to be unfolded–
Openness as a state
for encountering
the brave
and generous and
enlightened life.
*AleXander McManus’ Blue Moments;
**Quoted in Anne Lamott’s Hallelujah Anyway.
THIN|SILENCE 