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What is the right thing to do?

There are also moments when you find yourself... I was going to write "at a crossroads", but that is not quite what I mean here... more like moments that are still formative, that you are still unsure as to exactly what they are. There is no map, no clarity, no discernible juncture. And yet, of course, in a way, you always are.

I think of my favorite passage from Rebecca Solnit's book A Field Guide to Getting Lost: "Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Three years ago I was giving a workshop in the Rockies. A student came in bearing a quote from what she said was the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno. It read, 'How will you go about finding that the thing the nature of which is totally unkown to you?'"

How will you go about finding that the thing the nature of which is totally unkown to you?

There is no "right" thing to do except to be courageous and to brave the moment, to recognize it for what it is. To enter that moment and to live in it and face it.

You can't hide from it in familiarity. If you do, you are really destined you reman who and where you are.

What are we afraid of?

The right thing to do is the hard thing to do, the exciting thing to do.

It is about being willing to transform oneself, to be in a state of unfolding transformation.