Try paying attention to the pause before you launch into something. Say you’re about to write an article or come up with a new project.
The pause feels empty—dead, even. No ideas. No spark.
Panic rushes in: "How now? I have to!" Deeper, despair ices the gut: "What if the source has finally run dry?"
The more often you’ve stood at this edge, the faster these fears come and go. You simply nod to them: “Ah yes, you again.”
No promises wait, no hints flicker, yet calm settles in you. The hush and waste of Death's Valley can't trick you now. It bared its truth once —everything is the opposite of what it seems.
The fewer old structures remain, the more your former ideas have turned into fertile compost. In the pause, you’ve caught a sacred moment: the soil is about to give birth. To what?
That's the prize—you can't guess what. The Self startles the Ego. The person surprises himself. The old line cracks open: “For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
What does it take? Faith—and the attention of a drawn bowstring.
As philosopher Eugen Herrigel wrote in Zen in the Art of Archery (1948): “The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.”
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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