To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle

Tuesday, April 01, 2025
 

I am practising this business of letting be these days. I can deconstruct my own actions, feelings, reactions, and what have you till the cows come home (or not). It energizes me. Never exhausts me. It is a process of growth really, to know myself better and better. Growth as in not change, because not everything is about change or needs to change or can be changed. I would call it self-awareness rather. In a way, I am always in the thick of this process no matter what I am doing. But I have been wondering if sometimes it is good to let things just flow so to speak, not to question, comment, deconstruct, call attention to. To let things sort of slide, to let them take oneself over, apart,...? To talk about it sometimes might be to disenchant what is really magical in it. To name a thing might be to put it into a box and then one has to find a label... and labels again take away the magic? You understand this is not my normal mode? I am trying out something that does not come naturally to me... seeing how it feels like instead of controlling, deconstructing, making sense? How about not trying to make sense for a change? Just absorbing it? Letting it be? What's that like?