Certainty can be a liability; if I have an answer, the conversation ends. Asking more questions and practicing sitting quietly strips certainty away and allows a freshness to emerge, a bright curiosity. Sitting in stillness helps us hear the din and crackle of the thoughts that keep us busy, allowing us to prioritize the open spaces again. Concepts and narratives can fall away, we can venture out beyond self and other, beyond yes and no, dead and alive, right and wrong.
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From Hold Nothing © 2025 by Elena Brower. Reprinted in arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boulder, CO. www.shambhala.com
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