from the osho zen tarot deck:
The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed.
Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.
There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves.
The same is the path for man. It is arduous. Much courage will be needed.
Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang Chapter 4
my work is to push myself to be in uncomfortable spaces, and then push myself to be comfortable in those spaces.
2 comments:
Morally speaking, it is not always wise to put oneself in "uncomfortable spaces", nor is it wise to become comfortable in certain spaces which can not be (morally) comfortable. Also, I find it interesting that the quote uses the image of a "cross to bear".
jay--
thanks for your comment. by "uncomfortable spaces", i meant that i'm trying to do things that are difficult, to take on challenges and push past my insecurities as a way of expanding into myself more fully.
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