RT @nick_routledge: @TaraAnnThieke "The scariest moment is always just before you start.” - Stephen King. 'We cannot learn to swim and hold on at the same time: there comes a point where we must brave a dunking.'
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Octavia E. Butler said, "We don't have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start."
@solarpunk_girl @alexevansuk 2/ Given the epic personal challenge a genuine response to this mystery implies, is it any wonder the routine of a known but essentially unlived life holds so many of us in its predictable yet paralyzed thrall? The very way we see must end as another version of the world ensues.
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We may, however, safely assume that no matter how daunting our personal and collective circumstances appear in the face of such a transition, no matter how baffling or frightening this metamorphosis proves, a coherent response is nonetheless available to every one of us, wherever we live, in whichever culture or creed we have called our own. We can rest wholeheartedly in this assurance because, as ‘luck’ would have it, we and the ground upon which we individually stand is where our wellbeing and that of our world finds its truest common ground, what we have primary access to, and what we can do something about. Ultimately, Paradise-with-a-home-address is simply a way of living in and with reality that enables it to work with us, where we stand with what we have to hand. We turn back, as upon a hinge, towards the Source of our foundational wellbeing.