Looking Ahead
I like the quip I just read on the internet from Caitlin Johnstone: “Start over in the New Year. Also start over whenever you want, as often as you want. Time is an illusion anyway.” I’m 70 years old now. And still I hope for some re-birth. At a New Years Eve party last night, two guys my age laughed that by now they knew themselves pretty well and that it would be bad if they didn’t. I didn’t respond, but thought about that idea. I realized that I'm not really willing to say that I know myself. I’m inclined to agree with the late great Baba Ram Dass (and with Buddhist teaching), that there is in fact no “self” to know. Not that I’ve accomplished that level of enlightenment. I just have this sneaking suspicion that we can't really know our "selfs." And so, I am approaching the future with some wonderings. What will I experience up ahead? How will it shape my sense of identity and well-being? What can come through me that I can offer to others, in the ...