This so resonates. Eons ago, when I first decided I wanted to explore therapy (spoiler: it's a healthy person's response ...) I interviewed a therapist who led a group. She described the group and the work in terms of being victims. Blerg. I had been a victim, and my intent now was to get out of that space (e.g. MAZE). Best decision I ever made. It can be scary to leave one's story behind. But oh, the blessed freedom to live your way into new and more authentic narratives. It reminds me of this Rilke quote, one of my favorites:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Such a good way to put it--leaving one's story behind. So glad this resonated with you. A therapy group with a bunch of victims in it sounds hellish to me. And what a lovely quote from Rilke.
This so resonates. Eons ago, when I first decided I wanted to explore therapy (spoiler: it's a healthy person's response ...) I interviewed a therapist who led a group. She described the group and the work in terms of being victims. Blerg. I had been a victim, and my intent now was to get out of that space (e.g. MAZE). Best decision I ever made. It can be scary to leave one's story behind. But oh, the blessed freedom to live your way into new and more authentic narratives. It reminds me of this Rilke quote, one of my favorites:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Such a good way to put it--leaving one's story behind. So glad this resonated with you. A therapy group with a bunch of victims in it sounds hellish to me. And what a lovely quote from Rilke.
All very true. There’s so much static, but our voice on the page or in what we make is our way through!
So right on, Jeni!