To change without journeying is to be a chameleon.
To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim. ~ Mark Nepo
There is a symmetry about endings and beginnings that have to do with
cycles and time.
We look back with perspective and look forward with anticipation, openness and curiosity. Experiences fill the foreground as the mundane fades into the background. In this time of betwixt and between, our year-end / New Year angst contains both our eagerness to cast off our old shells and the anxiety of embracing the unknown.
When I was in India, the spiritual head of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram told me that my problem was that I worry too much about the future. He said, "The future will come at you like a speeding train, you don't need to do anything to prepare for it, you have to learn how to live in the present."
Easier said than done!
