January 25, 2024 – A

We are here to find out who we are
and to see what we can do.

To seek and serve our original nature
and innate virtues/attributes
within the constraints 
and opportunities
of the time and place
of our living.

In so doing, 
we have to give ourselves 
the freedom to explore--
the permission to experiment,
investigate,
examine,
ask,
inquire,
knock,
play,
dance,
sing...

To discover for ourselves
what the legitimate limits are,
and to push against those limits
without end,
testing them over and over,
to see if they are 
what we take them to be.

Always asking the questions
that beg to be asked
and saying the things 
that cry out to be said,
in the search for what can happen,
what the possibilities are,
what we can get by with,
and what we have to live with,
like it or not.

How are you coming along with that?
What assumptions are you making
that may be invalid assumptions?
What limits are you accepting
that may be imaginary limits?

We owe it to ourselves
to find out
what is so
and what is not so,
and who says so,
and what we can do about it,
anyway,
nevertheless,
even so.

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