The Clearing

 

"In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting... Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings the we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are."

- Martin Heidegger

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and righting there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."

-Rumi

 

Both of these great philosophical minds spoke of a clear place beyond the duality of common human thought. Right and wrong, possible and impossible. Should and shouldn't.

They both spoke of a clearing outside of these thoughts. A place where we can BE with who we are and dwell in the overwhelming possibility of our essential selves. Outside of the dense forest of the 'known' is a place where you can see the infinite possibilities shown to us by the endless stars in the Universe.

Outside of the known, anything is possible. But only when you remove yourself from the cover of what is and what 'should not' be. Step away from what you' know' about yourself. Outside of what you 'see as reality'.

From here you can access infinite potential and possibility. You can create a new future for yourself and the world. Delve into your deepest, truest, most essential self. And begin to create from there. Commune with infinite constellations of stars. Draw into your being the grandeur of the impossible. Bask in the light of truth, out from under the canopy of known thoughts.

When you reach this place of being you BECOME the clearing. You are a clearing in which you become your true self and allow others to see the light of infinite possibilities you carry within you... and that which they carry within them.

Laura Olsen