Inspiration Case Study #2: The Case of How We Unwittingly Contribute So Much to the World

[Published on the Facebook Thunkity Thunk: Open Ideas forum on October 28, 2019]

The importance of being broken, of being incomplete, of being full of contradictions, of always being a work in progress, a mold full of fragments that rearranges at the slightest touch.

The gift we give the world when we don’t know the answer and we pay attention to it in our seeking, the pleasure of shifting around life’s puzzle pieces, the epiphanies we wouldn’t have otherwise, how alive we feel in the act of gleaning meaning, how focused and full of purpose when our adultful soulwork reveals what’s right in front of us.

The injunction to accept that like all elements of nature we’re walking paradoxes: Made up of both continuously changing and discretely concrete identities, like cosmic light that is both a wave and a set of little particles. The injunction to accept each other as such, and to be grateful to be kept so flexible, in our hearts and minds. And to know all projects and relationships and Platonic ideals are the same, everything bending toward its own best essence on an unending, fractal-like curve, the accumulated beauty of which causes our boring, everyday reality to ripple and wink with magic and possibility.