Most of us think we’re pretty smart.
We’ve got a lot of things figured out.
We’ve got a plan for our careers, our relationships, and our lives.
Then Life happens and suddenly all those plans go out the window.
Maybe it was a health challenge we didn’t expect.
Maybe it was something that happened to someone close to us.
Maybe our industry suddenly collapse and we don’t know what to do next.
Slowly, but surely, over time we begin to realize that we really don’t know anything.
Our predictions of the future were all wrong.
Our assumptions about relationships and family turned out to be complicated than we expected.
Our vision for our lives suddenly seems to be a fantasy.
Then we drop it all.
We drop our expectations.
We drop our projections.
We drop our certainty.
And that’s when true wisdom begins.
When we come to the realization that we know absolutely nothing, we can begin to accept what is.
When we stop our belief that we are the center and the master of the universe, then the universe can bring us magic.
When we finally give up our egoic stance that we are so great and so smart, then we can start to find peace inside.
It doesn’t happen overnight.
It doesn’t happen all at once.
Yet when it does happen, it feels like magic.
It feels like a relief.
We soften and then know that it is okay that we don’t know anything.
~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant
