A stunning reminder .....
"The old world falls apart but the new has not yet emerged. Everything that once seemed permanent and real is revealed as a kind of hallucination. You don’t know what to think, what to do; you don’t know what anything means anymore. The life trajectory you had plotted out seems absurd, and you can’t imagine another one. Everything is uncertain. Your time frame shrinks from years to this month, this week, today, maybe even this present moment. Without the mirage of order that once seemed to protect you and filter reality, you feel naked and vulnerable, but also a kind of freedom.
"The old world falls apart but the new has not yet emerged. Everything that once seemed permanent and real is revealed as a kind of hallucination. You don’t know what to think, what to do; you don’t know what anything means anymore. The life trajectory you had plotted out seems absurd, and you can’t imagine another one. Everything is uncertain. Your time frame shrinks from years to this month, this week, today, maybe even this present moment. Without the mirage of order that once seemed to protect you and filter reality, you feel naked and vulnerable, but also a kind of freedom.
Possibilities that didn’t even exist in the old story lie
before you, even if you have no idea how to get there. The challenge in our
culture is to allow yourself to be in that space, to trust that the next story
will emerge when the time in between has ended, and that you will recognize it.
Our culture wants us to move on, to do. The old story we leave behind, which is
usually part of the consensus Story of the People, releases us with great
reluctance. So please, if you are in the sacred space between stories, allow
yourself to be there.
It is frightening to lose the old structures of security,
but you will find that even as you might lose things that were unthinkable to
lose, you will be okay. There is a kind of grace that protects us in the space
between stories. It is not that you won’t lose your marriage, your money, your
job, or your health. In fact, it is very likely that you will lose one of these
things. It is that you will discover that even having lost that, you are still
okay. You will find yourself in closer contact to something much more precious,
something that fires cannot burn and thieves cannot steal, something that no
one can take and cannot be lost. We might lose sight of it sometimes, but it is
always there waiting for us. This is the resting place we return to when the
old story falls apart. Clear of its fog, we can now receive a true vision of
the next world, the next story, the next phase of life. From the marriage of
this vision and this emptiness, a great power is born."
~ Charles Eisenstein / The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
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