There’s this idea we have—it’s a variation on the ‘I’ll be happy when…’ story—that there’s some sort of finish line to cross, when it comes to spiritual growth.
That there’s something we’re not seeing, or getting, and then when we do, we’ll have crossed that finish line and Everything Will Be Ok™.
LOL.
But, years after it looked like I’d crossed one such finish line, I’m still constantly amazed by:
a) my own dumb-assery
b) how much more there is to see… all the time!
I don’t think it ever really stops.
But I also don’t think there’s anything to achieve or attain here. It’s more of a gradual getting-comfortable-with-this-being-human malarkey that we’ve all had foisted upon us. A sort of being-ok-with-it-looking-like-we’re-not-ok situation.
Maybe it’s more of a staying-open-to-being-wrong, however “far we’ve come”?
(I remember, when I appeared on Becca Gardner’s The Thought Trap, we had a particularly funny moment where we were joking about how—by definition—because of the nature of thought, all of us are ‘wrong’ all of the time!! 😂)
And so when you look at a) and b) above, and reflect on how that shows up for you, you’ll see that really, they’re both exactly the same thing.
One, not two.
‘This’, not ‘This and That’.
They are/it is an inevitable part of being human (we’d be cyborgs, without this constant cycle of dumb-assery/insight going on!) and maybe ‘the journey’ is simply to see that more clearly, as time goes by?
(I don’t know. Don’t ask me. I’m wrong all of the time, remember? 🤷🏻♂️😆)
Anyway, I could write a book full of examples from my a) list, but I’ll spare you that today and instead relate a little something from the b) list.
Speaking with a client, about something they’d seen from their own b) list, I heard myself trotting out—again—the way that it related to the mind’s two greatest hits: