The Age of Reason has made the West believe in the almighteness of “reasoning”. If there is a problem, then there is also a solution. If there is a question, then there is also an answer. Agendas, yearly planning and procedures. We constantly plan our lives. We try as much as possible to “determine”, we like to set pegs out. Because then it is easier to control. Safe. As if we constantly want to swear to things and cannot accept that a lot just happens to us. Just like that.
Experience teaches us that it can sometimes turn out very differently than one had hoped for.
Life is unpredictable. Sometimes we are pleasantly surprised and sometimes we are struck by lightening. The hard truth is that in one second everything can change. The message “your cancer has spread”, makes that everything comes to an absolute standstill. Suddenly everything has changed. We do not have endless control as to what happens to us. The belief that we can control life, suddenly becomes a huge illusion.
Our thinking abandons us big time.
Is it therefore possible that a lot in our life goes deeper than the deepest thinking? That life invites us by persuasion to make room for “not knowing”? It is a first and big step to admit that we don’t know. We create space when we learn to let go and we do not want to “determine”. When we take our pegs away, one by one, at the end our heart remains and knows how to trust. It does not have to understand everything. The heart understands from an “inner knowledge” that goes further than all thinking. In the end everything and everyone is involved in a deep secret happening that is called “life” and in which nothing or no-one gets lost. In this we may place infinite trust.
And also that …. “is different from the expected”.
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