Being uncertain, yet still going forwards with commitment
In reply to Failure and resilience by Vimal
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Hi Vimal - I felt to jump in and pick up on this that you said...
I doubt if anyone truly following the soul and not fixating to an idea can be really certain about anything
Yes, sure. But that doesn't have to stop you doing something or committing to a direction. The soul is still committing to an inquiry - it is still working to bring light into the darkness, just not in a predetermined way. Countless times in developing this work, I've hit blockages and obstacles - I still do. But if I've then explored into the blockage of the flow and inquired what it's touched within me, then I always saw it was revealing something. And if I worked on that something, then the flow would resume itself - but in a different way. So it continues on, but the stream now takes a different route through a different landscape.
Crucially, I would not have discovered that new landscape if I'd not persisted forwards and worked into what came up.
Resilience isn't about rigidity. It's not about blindly beating your head against the same brick wall. It's about having the flexibility to adapt, innovate and change, even when times get tough. But you don't get the possibility of innovation without having taken yourself to the limit in what you're already doing.
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