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confusion is a high state of being

The ideal amount of not-knowing is not zero.

To make interesting work, you must be constantly pushing the boundaries, constantly finding your edge. Feeling lost and confused is a good sign, actually. It is an indicator that you are somewhere brand new.

Jacob Collier: “There’s this funny myth that you somehow need to know what you’re doing, but people who know what they’re doing don’t make interesting work.”

I’ve been doing a lot of consciousness work, lately. And I notice that, when I let it, life gets a whole lot weirder, a whole lot bigger, and a whole lot aliver. These days I seem to swing wildly between wanting to shrink back into safety and resist this new paradigm, and boldly stepping into what unfolds as I shed the identities that have buttressed my ego. Very often, I am awash with disorientation.

David Whyte: “How do you know you’re on the right path? Because it disappears”

Someone once said: “Confusion is a very high state of being,” and it baffled me until it didn’t. You cannot know until you know that you do not know. In other words, not knowing precedes knowing.

Confusion is what happens when we have followed the thread all the way down and discovered that reality, that the story we have believed for so long, is not so infallible. It rings hollow, it is empty from the inside out. It is what happens before we understand the fundamental paradox that underlies everything.

It is what happens when you blink, foggy-eyed. As you wake up.

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