Insight Quest

Qual­ity insights hap­pen when you rad­i­cally break your rou­tine. The greater the shift, the deeper the insights. Rad­i­cal changes we resist most, but later have to admit that they were the source — or at least the trig­ger for all sorts of new real­iza­tions. Never let a cri­sis go to waste (a phrase pop­u­lar­ized in pol­i­tics). Noah, Abra­ham, Sam­son, and a host of oth­ers came to real­ize great things by tak­ing huge risks. Those ter­rific adven­tures still belong to any­one will­ing to step out of his or her daily rut.

The big turn­ing point in my life came at the end of drift­ing around for a year. That was a painful but reward­ing time. While it was hap­pen­ing, I was resent­ful of it, but dur­ing that time I learned to trust in that Invis­i­ble Des­tiny that has so many names. The les­son was worth the cost. I have now learned to wel­come chaos in many of its forms — know­ing it too is an essen­tial part of creation.

Fatigue is also a won­der­ful edu­ca­tor. You learn things you do not want to learn only by being in a state in which you are too tired to resist the les­son. A safe and pro­tected life misses many won­der­ful expe­ri­ences. Life is appar­ently designed to be risked for the sake of some­thing greater. Noble truths are mostly attached to just causes cou­pled with coura­geous risks.

No one gets out of life alive. It makes no sense to live “safely” — since you are fac­ing your own inevitable demise. Do some­thing with life while you have it. Squeeze every­thing you can from it. Spend it knock­ing at the door of the Eter­nal until it opens.