When we are not sure, we are alive
Graham Greene
There’s a smugness, a dead-endedness, a finality, in being certain. When we are certain, we’re not open to new ideas or methods. Life is less an adventure and more an unending corridor.
Being certain, being closed, is not life affirming. Many of us work addicts are sure about just about everything. We’re rarely open or vulnerable in any way; we do not trust intuition or others’ opinions, we don’t recognize our own need for flexibility.
We must learn that the willingness to allow others possibilities gives us life; it renews us and makes us a living organism.
I will be more open to change. I know that it will help keep me fresh, aware, alive, open, and happier. And out of a rut.
Reading from Meditation for men who do too much by Jonathon Lazear
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