The Gordian Knot
I have with me
all that I do not know.
I have lost none of it.
—W.J. Merwin
Isn’t it odd to contemplate that some things will always be alien—unknown, even when you’ve tried to understand?
I’ll never understand string theory, but that’s not something I carry with me thinking that in time clarity will burst on the scene.
It’s those things that rub and chafe skin that refuse to be lost or known—a satchel of unanswered questions.
Is it possible to release —be unencumbered, unbound—from what you do not know?
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I think it is possible to release what we do not know. Case in point. . . yesterday in my yoga class, we were asked to gently stretch into a pose I did not think my body would do. It went there, and as I sunk deeply and slowly into the bend, something released that I did not even know I was carrying -- and I understood what I did not understand. And then it was gone. We can do this with our minds and bodies.
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